Access Restriction Bypass Affecting xen package, versions [,4.13.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XEN-2383880
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Apr 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Apr 2020

CVE-2020-11741  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-862  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xen to version 4.13.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. An issue was discovered in xenoprof in Xen through 4.13.x, allowing guest OS users (with active profiling) to obtain sensitive information about other guests, cause a denial of service, or possibly gain privileges. For guests for which "active" profiling was enabled by the administrator, the xenoprof code uses the standard Xen shared ring structure. Unfortunately, this code did not treat the guest as a potential adversary: it trusts the guest not to modify buffer size information or modify head / tail pointers in unexpected ways. This can crash the host (DoS). Privilege escalation cannot be ruled out.

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