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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.703969
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3969-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'xen' package(s) announced via the DSA-3969-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'xen' package(s) announced via the DSA-3969-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor:

CVE-2017-10912

Jann Horn discovered that incorrectly handling of page transfers might result in privilege escalation.

CVE-2017-10913 / CVE-2017-10914 Jann Horn discovered that race conditions in grant handling might result in information leaks or privilege escalation.

CVE-2017-10915

Andrew Cooper discovered that incorrect reference counting with shadow paging might result in privilege escalation.

CVE-2017-10916

Andrew Cooper discovered an information leak in the handling of the Memory Protection Extensions (MPX) and Protection Key (PKU) CPU features. This only affects Debian stretch.

CVE-2017-10917

Ankur Arora discovered a NULL pointer dereference in event polling, resulting in denial of service.

CVE-2017-10918

Julien Grall discovered that incorrect error handling in physical-to-machine memory mappings may result in privilege escalation, denial of service or an information leak.

CVE-2017-10919

Julien Grall discovered that incorrect handling of virtual interrupt injection on ARM systems may result in denial of service.

CVE-2017-10920 / CVE-2017-10921 / CVE-2017-10922 Jan Beulich discovered multiple places where reference counting on grant table operations was incorrect, resulting in potential privilege escalation.

CVE-2017-12135

Jan Beulich found multiple problems in the handling of transitive grants which could result in denial of service and potentially privilege escalation.

CVE-2017-12136

Ian Jackson discovered that race conditions in the allocator for grant mappings may result in denial of service or privilege escalation. This only affects Debian stretch.

CVE-2017-12137

Andrew Cooper discovered that incorrect validation of grants may result in privilege escalation.

CVE-2017-12855

Jan Beulich discovered that incorrect grant status handling, thus incorrectly informing the guest that the grant is no longer in use.

XSA-235 (no CVE yet) Wei Liu discovered that incorrect locking of add-to-physmap operations on ARM may result in denial of service.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4.4.1-9+deb8u10.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 4.8.1-1+deb9u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your xen packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'xen' package(s) on Debian 8, Debian 9.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
10.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-10912
BugTraq ID: 99158
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99158
Debian Security Information: DSA-3969 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3969
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-03
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-17
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038721
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-10913
BugTraq ID: 99411
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99411
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038722
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-10914
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-10915
BugTraq ID: 99174
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99174
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-10917
BugTraq ID: 99157
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99157
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038731
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-10918
BugTraq ID: 99161
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99161
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038732
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-10920
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038734
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-10921
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-10922
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-12135
BugTraq ID: 100344
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100344
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-14
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477655
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/15/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/17/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/14/4
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039178
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-12137
BugTraq ID: 100342
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100342
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477657
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/15/2
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039174
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-12855
BugTraq ID: 100341
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100341
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039177
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-15596
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039568
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