xen: CVE-2020-29040

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-29040   CVE-2020-27671  

Debian Bug report logs - #976109
xen: CVE-2020-29040

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Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>

Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 19:54:01 UTC

Severity: grave

Tags: security, upstream

Found in version xen/4.14.0+80-gd101b417b7-1

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, carnil@debian.org, team@security.debian.org, Debian Xen Team <pkg-xen-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>:
Bug#976109; Package src:xen. (Sun, 29 Nov 2020 19:54:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: xen: CVE-2020-29040
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 20:50:25 +0100
Source: xen
Version: 4.14.0+80-gd101b417b7-1
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream
Justification: user security hole
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil@debian.org, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for xen.

CVE-2020-29040[0]:
| An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x allowing x86 HVM guest
| OS users to cause a denial of service (stack corruption), cause a data
| leak, or possibly gain privileges because of an off-by-one error.
| NOTE: this issue is caused by an incorrect fix for CVE-2020-27671.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-29040
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-29040
[1] https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-355.html

Regards,
Salvatore



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