Upstream information
Description
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to gain host OS privileges by leveraging race conditions in pagetable promotion and demotion operations. There are issues with restartable PV type change operations. To avoid using shadow pagetables for PV guests, Xen exposes the actual hardware pagetables to the guest. In order to prevent the guest from modifying these page tables directly, Xen keeps track of how pages are used using a type system; pages must be "promoted" before being used as a pagetable, and "demoted" before being used for any other type. Xen also allows for "recursive" promotions: i.e., an operating system promoting a page to an L4 pagetable may end up causing pages to be promoted to L3s, which may in turn cause pages to be promoted to L2s, and so on. These operations may take an arbitrarily large amount of time, and so must be re-startable. Unfortunately, making recursive pagetable promotion and demotion operations restartable is incredibly complicated, and the code contains several races which, if triggered, can cause Xen to drop or retain extra type counts, potentially allowing guests to get write access to in-use pagetables. A malicious PV guest administrator may be able to escalate their privilege to that of the host. All x86 systems with untrusted PV guests are vulnerable. HVM and PVH guests cannot exercise this vulnerability.SUSE information
Overall state of this security issue: Resolved
This issue is currently rated as having important severity.
National Vulnerability Database | |
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Base Score | 7.1 |
Vector | AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C |
Access Vector | Network |
Access Complexity | High |
Authentication | Single |
Confidentiality Impact | Complete |
Integrity Impact | Complete |
Availability Impact | Complete |
National Vulnerability Database | SUSE | |
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Base Score | 7.5 | 8.2 |
Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
Attack Vector | Network | Local |
Attack Complexity | High | Low |
Privileges Required | Low | High |
User Interaction | None | None |
Scope | Unchanged | Changed |
Confidentiality Impact | High | High |
Integrity Impact | High | High |
Availability Impact | High | High |
CVSSv3 Version | 3.1 | 3 |
Note from the SUSE Security Team on the xen package
This issue likely only affects the XEN hypervisor itself, unless otherwise stated. The userland utilities in -tools and libraries in -libs are shipped together with the xen hypervisor as they are built from one source and do not contain hypervisor specific fixes. SUSE Bugzilla entries: 1154458 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 1178658 [RESOLVED / FIXED]SUSE Security Advisories:
- SUSE-SU-2019:2960-1, published Tue Nov 12 18:41:52 MST 2019
- SUSE-SU-2019:2961-1, published
- SUSE-SU-2019:2962-1, published Tue Nov 12 18:07:28 MST 2019
- SUSE-SU-2019:3297-1, published Fri Dec 13 16:10:48 MST 2019
- SUSE-SU-2020:0334-1, published Thu Feb 6 07:14:05 MST 2020
- SUSE-SU-2020:0388-1, published Mon Feb 17 10:11:14 MST 2020
- SUSE-SU-2020:14444-1, published Tue Aug 4 13:39:14 MDT 2020
- SUSE-SU-2020:14448-1, published Tue Aug 11 10:18:13 MDT 2020
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2506-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:48:43 2023
List of released packages
Product(s) | Fixed package version(s) | References |
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HPE Helion OpenStack 8 |
| Patchnames: HPE-Helion-OpenStack-8-2019-3297 |
Image SLES12-SP4-EC2-HVM-BYOS Image SLES12-SP4-SAP-EC2-HVM Image SLES12-SP4-SAP-EC2-HVM-BYOS |
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Image SLES15-EC2-CHOST-HVM-BYOS Image SLES15-EC2-HVM-BYOS Image SLES15-SAP-EC2-HVM Image SLES15-SAP-EC2-HVM-BYOS |
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Image SLES15-SP1-CAP-Deployment-BYOS-EC2-HVM Image SLES15-SP1-CHOST-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP1-EC2-HPC-HVM-BYOS Image SLES15-SP1-EC2-HVM-BYOS Image SLES15-SP1-Manager-4-0-EC2-HVM-BYOS-Proxy Image SLES15-SP1-Manager-4-0-EC2-HVM-BYOS-Server Image SLES15-SP1-SAP-EC2-HVM Image SLES15-SP1-SAP-EC2-HVM-BYOS Image SLES15-SP1-SAPCAL-EC2-HVM |
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SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0 |
| Patchnames: SUSE-CAASP-3.0-2019-3297 |
SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 |
| Patchnames: SUSE-Storage-5-2019-3297 |
SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0 SUSE Manager Server 4.0 |
| Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP1-2019-2961 SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP1-2019-2961 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 |
| Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP4-2019-2962 SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP4-2019-2962 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 |
| Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP1-2019-2961 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 |
| Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2019-2960 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 |
| Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 GA xen-4.12.1_06-1.1 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 |
| Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2019-2960 SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-2019-2960 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP1 |
| Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP1-2019-2961 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 |
| Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-2019-2960 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3 |
| Patchnames: sleposp3-xen-14448 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 12 SP2-CLIENT |
| Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-POS-12-SP2-CLIENT-2020-334 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS |
| Patchnames: slessp4-xen-14444 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS |
| Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2020-388 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL |
| Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2020-334 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS |
| Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-ESPOS-2020-334 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS |
| Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2020-334 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL |
| Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-BCL-2019-3297 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS |
| Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-ESPOS-2019-3297 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS |
| Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-3297 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 |
| Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP4-2019-2962 SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-2962 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 |
| Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 GA xen-4.12.1_06-1.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 GA xen-devel-4.12.1_06-1.1 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 |
| Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2020-388 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 |
| Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2020-334 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 |
| Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP3-2019-3297 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 |
| Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 GA xen-devel-4.12.1_06-1.1 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4 |
| Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP4-2019-2962 |
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 |
| Patchnames: SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2020-334 |
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 |
| Patchnames: SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-8-2019-3297 |
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 |
| Patchnames: SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Crowbar-8-2019-3297 |
openSUSE Leap 15.0 |
| Patchnames: openSUSE-2019-2506 |
openSUSE Leap 15.1 |
| Patchnames: openSUSE-2019-2508 |
Status of this issue by product and package
Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.
Product(s) | Source package | State |
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Products under general support and receiving all security fixes. | ||
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 | xen | Already fixed |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 | xen | Already fixed |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS | xen | Affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 | xen | Affected |
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes. | ||
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 | xen | Not affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS | xen | Not affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS | xen | Not affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 | xen | Already fixed |
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS | xen | Already fixed |
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS | xen | Already fixed |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP2 | xen | Not affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP3 | xen | Already fixed |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP2 | xen | Not affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP3 | xen | Already fixed |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 | xen | Not affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS | xen | Not affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 | xen | Already fixed |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS | xen | Already fixed |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-ESPOS | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Business Critical Linux 15 SP1 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 | xen | Not affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 | xen | Already fixed |
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore. | ||
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 | xen | Released |
SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0 | xen | Released |
SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 | xen | Released |
SUSE Container as a Service Platform 1.0 | xen | Released |
SUSE Container as a Service Platform 2.0 | xen | Released |
SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 | xen | Released |
SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 | xen | Released |
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 | xen | Not affected |
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 | xen | Already fixed |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 | xen | Affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 | xen | Affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1 | xen | Affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 | xen | Affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 | xen | Affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2 | xen | Not affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP3 | xen | Already fixed |
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP4 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-ESPOS | xen | Affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS | xen | Affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0 | xen | Not affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP1 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 12 SP2-CLIENT | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service 11 SP3 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2 | xen | Not affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 | xen | Already fixed |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 | xen | Affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS | xen | Affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 | xen | Affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 | xen | Affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 | xen | Affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 | xen | Affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-BCL | xen | Affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-BCL | xen | Not affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-BCL | xen | Already fixed |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP3 | xen | Affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 | xen | Affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 | xen | Released |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3 | xen | Affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 | xen | Affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1 | xen | Affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2 | xen | Affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3 | xen | Affected |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4 | xen | Released |
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 | xen | Released |
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 | xen | Not affected |
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 | xen | Already fixed |
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0 | xen | Released |
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1 | xen | Not affected |
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 | xen | Already fixed |
SUSE Manager Server 4.0 | xen | Released |
SUSE Manager Server 4.1 | xen | Not affected |
SUSE Manager Server 4.2 | xen | Already fixed |
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 | xen | Released |
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 | xen | Released |
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 | xen | Released |
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 | xen | Released |
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 | xen | Released |
openSUSE Leap 15.3 | xen | Already fixed |
openSUSE Leap Micro 5.2 | xen | Already fixed |
Products at an unknown state of their lifecycle. | ||
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security | xen | Affected |
SUSE Timeline for this CVE
CVE page created: Fri Oct 18 13:24:40 2019CVE page last modified: Tue Oct 8 18:25:16 2024