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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following
problems:

Andrew Sorensen discovered that a HVM domain can exhaust the hosts
disk space by filling up the log file.

Jan Beulich from SUSE discovered that Xen does not properly handle
writes to the hardware FSW.ES bit when running on AMD64 processors.
A malicious domain can take advantage of this flaw to obtain address
space usage and timing information, about another domain, at a
fairly low rate.

Wei Xiao and Qinghao Tang of 360.cn Inc discovered an out-of-bounds
read and write flaw in the QEMU VGA module. A privileged guest user
could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the host with the
privileges of the hosting QEMU process.

Zuozhi Fzz of Alibaba Inc discovered potential integer overflow
or out-of-bounds read access issues in the QEMU VGA module. A
privileged guest user could use this flaw to mount a denial of
service (QEMU process crash).

Ling Liu and Yihan Lian of the Cloud Security Team, Qihoo 360
discovered an integer overflow in the x86 shadow pagetable code. A
HVM guest using shadow pagetables can cause the host to crash. A PV
guest using shadow pagetables (i.e. being migrated) with PV
superpages enabled (which is not the default) can crash the host, or
corrupt hypervisor memory, potentially leading to privilege
escalation.

Jan Beulich discovered that incorrect page table handling could
result in privilege escalation inside a Xen guest instance.

JĂŠrĂŠmie Boutoille discovered that incorrect pagetable handling in
PV instances could result in guest to host privilege escalation.

  • Additionally this Xen Security Advisory without a CVE was fixed: XSA-166

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk and Jan Beulich discovered that ioreq handling
is possibly susceptible to a multiple read issue.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version
4.1.6.lts1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your xen packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: <https://wiki.debian.org/LTS&gt;