Security Information / 2012 / Security Information -- DSA-2531-1 xen

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2531-1 xen -- Denial of Service

Date Reported:

18 Aug 2012

Affected Packages:

xen

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 683279.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-3432, CVE-2012-3433.

More information:

Several denial-of-service vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xen, the popular virtualization software. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues:

• CVE-2012-3432

  Guest mode unprivileged code, which has been granted the privilege to access MMIO regions, may leverage that access to crash the whole guest. Since this can be used to crash a client from within, this vulnerability is considered to have low impact.

• CVE-2012-3433

  A guest kernel can cause the host to become unresponsive for a period of time, potentially leading to a DoS. Since an attacker with full control in the guest can impact the host, this vulnerability is considered to have high impact.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.1-5.3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your xen packages.