oxenstored in Xen 4.1.x, Xen 4.2.x, and xen-unstable does not properly consider the state of the Xenstore ring during read operations, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash and host-control outage, or memory consumption) or obtain sensitive control-plane data by leveraging guest administrative access.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xen | Xen | 4.1.0 (including) | 4.1.0 (including) |
| Xen | Xen | 4.1.1 (including) | 4.1.1 (including) |
| Xen | Xen | 4.1.2 (including) | 4.1.2 (including) |
| Xen | Xen | 4.1.3 (including) | 4.1.3 (including) |
| Xen | Xen | 4.1.4 (including) | 4.1.4 (including) |
| Xen | Ubuntu | devel | * |
| Xen | Ubuntu | oneiric | * |
| Xen | Ubuntu | precise | * |
| Xen | Ubuntu | quantal | * |
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/05/10
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
- http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=40f9c5e0a6d15b4ca1f6d4ed3a46f0871520eab5
- http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=61401264eb00fae4ee4efc8e9a5067449283207b
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/05/10
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
- http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=40f9c5e0a6d15b4ca1f6d4ed3a46f0871520eab5
- http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=61401264eb00fae4ee4efc8e9a5067449283207b