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Fedora 33: FEDORA-2020-64859a826b Critical: Xen Permissions Issues

fedora
Calendar Grey December 24, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important Fedora 33 patch for Xen addresses significant security vulnerabilities regarding access permissions and additional aspects for virtualization platforms.
xenstore watch notifications lacking permission checks [XSA-115, CVE-2020-29480] (#1908091) Xenstore: new domains inheriting existing node permissions [XSA-322, CVE-2020-29481] (#1...

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

xenstore watch notifications lacking permission checks [XSA-115, CVE-2020-29480]

(#1908091) Xenstore: new domains inheriting existing node permissions [XSA-322,

CVE-2020-29481] (#1908095) Xenstore: wrong path length check [XSA-323,

CVE-2020-29482] (#1908096) Xenstore: guests can crash xenstored via watchs

[XSA-324, CVE-2020-29484] (#1908088) Xenstore: guests can disturb domain cleanup

[XSA-325, CVE-2020-29483] (#1908087) oxenstored memory leak in reset_watches

[XSA-330, CVE-2020-29485] (#1908000) undue recursion in x86 HVM context switch

code [XSA-348, CVE-2020-29566] (#1908085) oxenstored: node ownership can be

changed by unprivileged clients [XSA-352, CVE-2020-29486] (#1908003) oxenstored:

permissions not checked on root node [XSA-353, CVE-2020-29479] (#1908002)

infinite loop when cleaning up IRQ vectors [XSA-356, CVE-2020-29567] (#1907932)

FIFO event channels control block related ordering [XSA-358, CVE-2020-29570]

(#1907931) FIFO event channels control structure ordering [XSA-359,

CVE-2020-29571] (#1908089)

* Tue Dec 15 2020 Michael Young - 4.14.0-14

- xenstore watch notifications lacking permission checks [XSA-115,

CVE-2020-29480] (#1908091)

- Xenstore: new domains inheriting existing node permissions [XSA-322,

CVE-2020-29481] (#1908095)

- Xenstore: wrong path length check [XSA-323, CVE-2020-29482] (#1908096)

- Xenstore: guests can crash xenstored via watchs [XSA-324, CVE-2020-29484]

(#1908088)

- Xenstore: guests can disturb domain cleanup [XSA-325, CVE-2020-29483]

(#1905648)

- oxenstored memory leak in reset_watches [XSA-330, CVE-2020-29485]

(#1908000)

- undue recursion in x86 HVM context switch code [XSA-348, CVE-2020-29566]

(#1908085)

- oxenstored: node ownership can be changed by unprivileged clients

[XSA-352, CVE-2020-29486] (#1908003)

- oxenstored: permissions not checked on root node [XSA-353, CVE-2020-29479]

(#1908003)

- infinite loop when cleaning up IRQ vectors [XSA-356, CVE-2020-29567]

(#1907932)

- FIFO event channels control block related ordering [XSA-358,

CVE-2020-29570] (#1907931)

- FIFO event channels control structure ordering [XSA-359, CVE-2020-29571]

(#1908089)

* Sat Dec 5 2020 Jeff Law - 4.14.0-13

- Work around another gcc-11 stringop-overflow diagnostic

[ 1 ] Bug #1905623 - CVE-2020-29485 xen: oxenstored memory leak in reset_watches (XSA-330)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1905623

[ 2 ] Bug #1905626 - CVE-2020-29482 xen: Xenstore: wrong path length check (XSA-323)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1905626

[ 3 ] Bug #1905632 - CVE-2020-29481 xen: Xenstore: new domains inheriting existing node permissions (XSA-322)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1905632

[ 4 ] Bug #1905635 - CVE-2020-29484 xen: Xenstore: guests can crash xenstored via watchs (XSA-324)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1905635

[ 5 ] Bug #1905648 - CVE-2020-29483 xen: Xenstore: guests can disturb domain cleanup (XSA-325)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1905648

[ 6 ] Bug #1905652 - CVE-2020-29486 xen: oxenstored: node ownership can be changed by unprivileged clients (XSA-352)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1905652

[ 7 ] Bug #1905656 - CVE-2020-29567 xen: infinite loop when cleaning up IRQ vectors (XSA-356)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1905656

[ 8 ] Bug #1905668 - CVE-2020-29479 xen: oxenstored: permissions not checked on root node (XSA-353)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1905668

[ 9 ] Bug #1905669 - CVE-2020-29566 xen: undue recursion in x86 HVM context switch code (XSA-348)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1905669

[ 10 ] Bug #1905672 - CVE-2020-29480 xen: xenstore watch notifications lacking permission checks (XSA-115)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1905672

[ 11 ] Bug #1905675 - CVE-2020-29570 xen: FIFO event channels control block related ordering (XSA-358)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1905675

[ 12 ] Bug #1905676 - CVE-2020-29571 xen: FIFO event channels control structure ordering

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1905676

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-64859a826b' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 33
Version: 4.14.0
Release: 14.fc33
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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