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CVE-2019-18422

Published: 31 October 2019

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing ARM guest OS users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges by leveraging the erroneous enabling of interrupts. Interrupts are unconditionally unmasked in exception handlers. When an exception occurs on an ARM system which is handled without changing processor level, some interrupts are unconditionally enabled during exception entry. So exceptions which occur when interrupts are masked will effectively unmask the interrupts. A malicious guest might contrive to arrange for critical Xen code to run with interrupts erroneously enabled. This could lead to data corruption, denial of service, or possibly even privilege escalation. However a precise attack technique has not been identified.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
hypervisor packages are in universe
alexmurray
This issue is specific only to ARM platforms - x86 systems are not affected

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
xen
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Ignored
(end of life)
focal Not vulnerable
(4.11.3+24-g14b62ab3e5-1ubuntu1)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

impish Not vulnerable
(4.11.3+24-g14b62ab3e5-1ubuntu1)
groovy Not vulnerable
(4.11.3+24-g14b62ab3e5-1ubuntu1)
bionic Needed

hirsute Not vulnerable
(4.11.3+24-g14b62ab3e5-1ubuntu1)
xenial Needed

jammy Not vulnerable
(4.11.3+24-g14b62ab3e5-1ubuntu1)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(4.11.3+24-g14b62ab3e5-1ubuntu1)
lunar Not vulnerable
(4.11.3+24-g14b62ab3e5-1ubuntu1)
mantic Not vulnerable
(4.11.3+24-g14b62ab3e5-1ubuntu1)
Binaries built from this source package are in Universe and so are supported by the community.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H