Security Announcements (Historical)
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The following security advisories have been made in accordance with the xen.org security problem response process.
Please contact security@xen.org if you wish to disclose a security vulnerability.
XSA-1 Host crash due to failure to correctly validate PV kernel execution state.
- Date
- 14 March 2011
- References
- CVE-2011-1166
- Advisory
- Cannot specify user mode execution without specifying user-mode pagetables. Failure to validate this allows a malicious or buggy 64 bit PV guest to crash the host.
- nb: predates vulnerability handling process and therefore no formal announcement
- Fixes
- xen-unstable.hg: 23034:c79aae866ad8
- xen-4.1-testing.hg: 22993:842aed720b84
- xen-4.0-testing.hg: 21461:ee088a0b5cb8
XSA-2 PV kernel validation vulnerabilities
- Date
- 9 May 2011
- References
- CVE-2011-1583
- Advisory
- http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-05/msg00483.html
- Fixes
- xen-unstable.hg: 23322:d9982136d8fa
- xen-4.1-testing.hg: 23042:e2e575f8b5d9
- xen-4.0-testing.hg: 21482:c2adc059e931
XSA-3 VT-d (PCI passthrough) MSI
- Date
- 12 May 2011
- References
- CVE-2011-1898
- Advisory
- http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-05/msg00687.html
- Fixes
- xen-unstable.hg: 23337:cc91832a02c7
- xen-4.1-testing.hg: 23046:ed630a821de1
- xen-4.0-testing.hg: 21485:b85a9e58ec3a
XSA-4 Xen 3.3 vaddr validation
- Date
- 2 September 2011
- References
- CVE-2011-2901
- Advisory
- http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-09/msg00119.html
- Fixes
- xen-unstable.hg: 23800:72edc40e2942
- nb: although the off-by-one error was fixed in the above changeset only Xen version 3.3 and earlier were vulnerable due to this error.
XSA-5 IOMMU Fault Live lock
- Date
- 12 August 2011
- References
- CVE-2011-3131
- Advisory
- http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-08/msg00450.html
- Fixes
- xen-unstable.hg: 23762:537ed3b74b3f
- xen-4.1-testing.hg: 23112:84e3706df07a
- xen-4.0-testing.hg: 21535:789ff1a462b8
