CVE-2020-11741
Publication date 14 April 2020
Last updated 24 July 2024
Ubuntu priority
An issue was discovered in xenoprof in Xen through 4.13.x, allowing guest OS users (with active profiling) to obtain sensitive information about other guests, cause a denial of service, or possibly gain privileges. For guests for which "active" profiling was enabled by the administrator, the xenoprof code uses the standard Xen shared ring structure. Unfortunately, this code did not treat the guest as a potential adversary: it trusts the guest not to modify buffer size information or modify head / tail pointers in unexpected ways. This can crash the host (DoS). Privilege escalation cannot be ruled out.
Status
| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
| xen | 24.10 oracular |
Not affected
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| 24.04 LTS noble |
Not affected
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| 22.04 LTS jammy |
Not affected
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| 20.04 LTS focal |
Fixed 4.11.3+24-g14b62ab3e5-1ubuntu2.3
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| 18.04 LTS bionic |
Vulnerable
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| 16.04 LTS xenial |
Vulnerable
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| 14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release |
Notes
mdeslaur
hypervisor packages are in universe. For issues in the hypervisor, add appropriate tags to each section, ex: Tags_xen: universe-binary
Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score |
8.8 · High
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| Attack vector | Local |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | Low |
| User interaction | None |
| Scope | Changed |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity impact | High |
| Availability impact | High |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References
Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)
- USN-5617-1
- Xen vulnerabilities
- 19 September 2022