Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere Affecting xen package, versions <4.14.0+88-g1d1d1f5391-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-XEN-1051744
  • published16 Dec 2020
  • disclosed15 Dec 2020

Introduced: 15 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-29481  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-668  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable xen to version 4.14.0+88-g1d1d1f5391-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xen package and not the xen package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. Access rights of Xenstore nodes are per domid. Unfortunately, existing granted access rights are not removed when a domain is being destroyed. This means that a new domain created with the same domid will inherit the access rights to Xenstore nodes from the previous domain(s) with the same domid. Because all Xenstore entries of a guest below /local/domain/<domid> are being deleted by Xen tools when a guest is destroyed, only Xenstore entries of other guests still running are affected. For example, a newly created guest domain might be able to read sensitive information that had belonged to a previously existing guest domain. Both Xenstore implementations (C and Ocaml) are vulnerable.

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