Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2337-1 xen -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 06 Nov 2011
- Affected Packages:
- xen
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-1166, CVE-2011-1583, CVE-2011-1898, CVE-2011-3262.
- More information:
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Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the Xen virtual machine hypervisor.
- CVE-2011-1166
A 64-bit guest can get one of its vCPUs into non-kernel mode without first providing a valid non-kernel pagetable, thereby locking up the host system.
- CVE-2011-1583, CVE-2011-3262
Local users can cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted paravirtualised guest kernel image.
- CVE-2011-1898
When using PCI passthrough on Intel VT-d chipsets that do not have interrupt remapping, guest OS users can gain host OS privileges by writing to the interrupt injection registers.
The oldstable distribution (lenny) contains a different version of Xen not affected by these problems.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.1-4.
For the testing (wheezy) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your xen packages.
- CVE-2011-1166