Debian LTS: DLA-964-1: xen security update
Summary
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following
problems:
CVE-2016-9932 (XSA-200)
CMPXCHG8B emulation allows local HVM guest OS users to obtain sensitive
information from host stack memory.
CVE-2017-7995
Description
Xen checks access permissions to MMIO ranges only after accessing them,
allowing host PCI device space memory reads.
CVE-2017-8903 (XSA-213)
Xen mishandles page tables after an IRET hypercall which can lead to
arbitrary code execution on the host OS. The vulnerability is only exposed
to 64-bit PV guests.
CVE-2017-8904 (XSA-214)
Xen mishandles the "contains segment descriptors" property during
GNTTABOP_transfer. This might allow PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary
code on the host OS.
CVE-2017-8905 (XSA-215)
Xen mishandles a failsafe callback which might allow PV guest OS users to
execute arbitrary code on the host OS.
For Debian 7 "Wheezy", the...