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High DSA-5836-1 12 CVEs

xen - security update

Published Dec 26, 2024 · Updated Mar 9, 2026

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Debian · 12 xen 4.17.5+23-ga4e5191dc0-1

Vulnerabilities 12

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2024-31142 EPSS 17%

    x86: Incorrect logic for BTC/SRSO mitigations

    Because of a logical error in XSA-407 (Branch Type Confusion), the mitigation is not applied properly when it is intended to be used. XSA-434 (Speculative Return Stack Overflow) uses the same infrastructure, so is equally impacted. For more details, see: http…

  • High 7.5

    double unlock in x86 guest IRQ handling

    An optional feature of PCI MSI called "Multiple Message" allows a device to use multiple consecutive interrupt vectors. Unlike for MSI-X, the setting up of these consecutive vectors needs to happen all in one go. In this handling an error path could be taken …

  • High 7.5

    error handling in x86 IOMMU identity mapping

    Certain PCI devices in a system might be assigned Reserved Memory Regions (specified via Reserved Memory Region Reporting, "RMRR") for Intel VT-d or Unity Mapping ranges for AMD-Vi. These are typically used for platform tasks such as legacy USB emulation. Sin…

  • High 7.5

    PCI device pass-through with shared resources

    When multiple devices share resources and one of them is to be passed through to a guest, security of the entire system and of respective guests individually cannot really be guaranteed without knowing internals of any of the involved guests. Therefore such a…

  • High 7.3

    x86: Deadlock in vlapic_error()

    In x86's APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) architecture, error conditions are reported in a status register. Furthermore, the OS can opt to receive an interrupt when a new error occurs. It is possible to configure the error interrupt with an i…

  • Medium 6.5

    Information exposure through microarchitectural state after transient execution from some register files for some Intel…

  • Medium 6.5

    x86: shadow stack vs exceptions from emulation stubs

    Recent x86 CPUs offer functionality named Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET). A sub-feature of this are Shadow Stacks (CET-SS). CET-SS is a hardware feature designed to protect against Return Oriented Programming attacks. When enabled, traditional stac…

  • Medium 6.5

    x86 HVM hypercalls may trigger Xen bug check

    Unlike 32-bit PV guests, HVM guests may switch freely between 64-bit and other modes. This in particular means that they may set registers used to pass 32-bit-mode hypercall arguments to values outside of the range 32-bit code would be able to set them to. Wh…

  • Medium 6.5

    Deadlock in x86 HVM standard VGA handling

    The hypervisor contains code to accelerate VGA memory accesses for HVM guests, when the (virtual) VGA is in "standard" mode. Locking involved there has an unusual discipline, leaving a lock acquired past the return from the function that acquired it. This beh…

  • Medium 5.7
    CVE-2024-2193 Public exploit

    Speculative Race Condition impacts modern CPU architectures that support speculative execution, also known as GhostRace.

    A Speculative Race Condition (SRC) vulnerability that impacts modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution (related to Spectre V1) has been disclosed. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to disclose arbitrary data from the …

  • Medium 5.5

    libxl leaks data to PVH guests via ACPI tables

    PVH guests have their ACPI tables constructed by the toolstack. The construction involves building the tables in local memory, which are then copied into guest memory. While actually used parts of the local memory are filled in correctly, excess space that is…

  • Medium 4.7

    CVE-2024-2201

    A cross-privilege Spectre v2 vulnerability allows attackers to bypass all deployed mitigations, including the recent Fine(IBT), and to leak arbitrary Linux kernel memory on Intel systems.