CVE-2019-18420
Published: 31 October 2019
An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service via a VCPUOP_initialise hypercall. hypercall_create_continuation() is a variadic function which uses a printf-like format string to interpret its parameters. Error handling for a bad format character was done using BUG(), which crashes Xen. One path, via the VCPUOP_initialise hypercall, has a bad format character. The BUG() can be hit if VCPUOP_initialise executes for a sufficiently long period of time for a continuation to be created. Malicious guests may cause a hypervisor crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). Xen versions 4.6 and newer are vulnerable. Xen versions 4.5 and earlier are not vulnerable. Only x86 PV guests can exploit the vulnerability. HVM and PVH guests, and guests on ARM systems, cannot exploit the vulnerability.
Unknown
CVSS 3 base score: 6.5
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
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xen Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Needs triage
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| Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) |
Not vulnerable
(4.11.3+24-g14b62ab3e5-1ubuntu1)
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| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) |
Not vulnerable
(4.11.3+24-g14b62ab3e5-1ubuntu1)
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| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Needs triage
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| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) |
Needs triage
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| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Does not exist
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| Binaries built from this source package are in Universe and so are supported by the community. | ||
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| mdeslaur | hypervisor packages are in universe. For issues in the hypervisor, add appropriate tags to each section, ex: Tags_xen: universe-binary |