CVE-2020-29570
CVE-2020-29570
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An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. Recording of the per-vCPU control block mapping maintained by Xen and that of pointers into the control block is reversed. The consumer assumes, seeing the former initialized, that the latter are also ready for use. Malicious or buggy guest kernels can mount a Denial of Service (DoS) attack affecting the entire system.
CVSS 6.2 · Medium · EPSS 0.4% · Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Stack: system
Affected products and versions
n/a
- Versions
- n/a: Affected
No fix published
xen Debian:12
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 4.14.0+88-g1d1d1f5391-1
Update to 4.14.0+88-g1d1d1f5391-1
xen Debian:13
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 4.14.0+88-g1d1d1f5391-1
Update to 4.14.0+88-g1d1d1f5391-1
xen Debian:14
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 4.14.0+88-g1d1d1f5391-1
Update to 4.14.0+88-g1d1d1f5391-1
xen Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
- Versions
- 4.5.1-0ubuntu1
- 4.5.1-0ubuntu2
- 4.6.0-1ubuntu1
- 4.6.0-1ubuntu2
- 4.6.0-1ubuntu4
- 4.6.0-1ubuntu4.1
- 4.6.0-1ubuntu4.2
- 4.6.0-1ubuntu4.3
- 4.6.5-0ubuntu1
- 4.6.5-0ubuntu1.1
- 4.6.5-0ubuntu1.2
- 4.6.5-0ubuntu1.4
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
xen Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
- Versions
- 4.9.0-0ubuntu3
- 4.9.0-0ubuntu4
- 4.9.2-0ubuntu1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
xen Ubuntu:20.04:LTS
- Versions
- 4.9.2-0ubuntu2
- 4.9.2-0ubuntu6
- 4.9.2-0ubuntu7
- 4.11.3+24-g14b62ab3e5-1ubuntu1
- 4.11.3+24-g14b62ab3e5-1ubuntu2
- 4.11.3+24-g14b62ab3e5-1ubuntu2.2
- 4.11.3+24-g14b62ab3e5-1ubuntu2.3
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
Original sources
- https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-358.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4812
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/12/16/4
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OBLV6L6Q24PPQ2CRFXDX4Q76KU776GKI/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2C6M6S3CIMEBACH6O7V4H2VDANMO6TVA/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-30
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-29570