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Xen Project Hypervisor versions 4.3.4 and 4.4.2 are available

jbeulich

jbeulich

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I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.3.4 and Xen 4.4.2. Both releases are available immediately from their git repositories and download pages (see below). We recommend to all users of the 4.3 and 4.4 stable series to update to these latest point releases.

Xen 4.3.4

This release is available immediately from its git repository at
http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/stable-4.3
(tag RELEASE-4.3.4) or from the XenProject download page.

Note that this is expected to be the last release of the 4.3 stable series. The tree will be switched to security only maintenance mode after this release.

This fixes the following critical vulnerabilities:

  • CVE-2014-5146, CVE-2014-5149 / XSA-97: Long latency virtual-mmu operations are not preemptible
  • CVE-2014-7154 / XSA-104: Race condition in HVMOP_track_dirty_vram
  • CVE-2014-7155 / XSA-105: Missing privilege level checks in x86 HLT, LGDT, LIDT, and LMSW emulation
  • CVE-2014-7156 / XSA-106: Missing privilege level checks in x86 emulation of software interrupts
  • CVE-2014-7188 / XSA-108: Improper MSR range used for x2APIC emulation
  • CVE-2014-8594 / XSA-109: Insufficient restrictions on certain MMU update hypercalls
  • CVE-2014-8595 / XSA-110: Missing privilege level checks in x86 emulation of far branches
  • CVE-2014-8866 / XSA-111: Excessive checking in compatibility mode hypercall argument translation
  • CVE-2014-8867 / XSA-112: Insufficient bounding of “REP MOVS” to MMIO emulated inside the hypervisor
  • CVE-2014-9030 / XSA-113: Guest effectable page reference leak in MMU_MACHPHYS_UPDATE handling
  • CVE-2014-9065, CVE-2014-9066 / XSA-114: p2m lock starvation
  • CVE-2015-0361 / XSA-116: xen crash due to use after free on hvm guest teardown
  • CVE-2015-1563 / XSA-118: arm: vgic: incorrect rate limiting of guest triggered logging
  • CVE-2015-2152 / XSA-119: HVM qemu unexpectedly enabling emulated VGA graphics backends
  • CVE-2015-2044 / XSA-121: Information leak via internal x86 system device emulation
  • CVE-2015-2045 / XSA-122: Information leak through version information hypercall
  • CVE-2015-2151 / XSA-123: Hypervisor memory corruption due to x86 emulator flaw

Additionally a bug in the fix for CVE-2014-3969 / CVE-2015-2290 / XSA-98 (which got assigned CVE-2015-2290) got addressed.

Sadly the workaround for CVE-2013-3495 / XSA-59 (Intel VT-d Interrupt Remapping engines can be evaded by native NMI interrupts) still can’t be guaranteed to cover all affected chipsets; Intel continues to be working on providing us with a complete list.

Apart from those there are many further bug fixes and improvements.

We recommend all users of the 4.3 stable series to update to this last point release.

Xen 4.4.2

This release is available immediately from its git repository at
http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/stable-4.4
(tag RELEASE-4.4.2) or from the XenProject download page.

This fixes the following critical vulnerabilities:

  • CVE-2014-5146, CVE-2014-5149 / XSA-97: Long latency virtual-mmu operations are not preemptible
  • CVE-2014-7154 / XSA-104: Race condition in HVMOP_track_dirty_vram
  • CVE-2014-7155 / XSA-105: Missing privilege level checks in x86 HLT, LGDT, LIDT, and LMSW emulation
  • CVE-2014-7156 / XSA-106: Missing privilege level checks in x86 emulation of software interrupts
  • CVE-2014-6268 / XSA-107: Mishandling of uninitialised FIFO-based event channel control blocks
  • CVE-2014-7188 / XSA-108: Improper MSR range used for x2APIC emulation
  • CVE-2014-8594 / XSA-109: Insufficient restrictions on certain MMU update hypercalls
  • CVE-2014-8595 / XSA-110: Missing privilege level checks in x86 emulation of far branches
  • CVE-2014-8866 / XSA-111: Excessive checking in compatibility mode hypercall argument translation
  • CVE-2014-8867 / XSA-112: Insufficient bounding of “REP MOVS” to MMIO emulated inside the hypervisor
  • CVE-2014-9030 / XSA-113: Guest effectable page reference leak in MMU_MACHPHYS_UPDATE handling
  • CVE-2014-9065, CVE-2014-9066 / XSA-114: p2m lock starvation
  • CVE-2015-0361 / XSA-116: xen crash due to use after free on hvm guest teardown
  • CVE-2015-1563 / XSA-118: arm: vgic: incorrect rate limiting of guest triggered logging
  • CVE-2015-2152 / XSA-119: HVM qemu unexpectedly enabling emulated VGA graphics backends
  • CVE-2015-2044 / XSA-121: Information leak via internal x86 system device emulation
  • CVE-2015-2045 / XSA-122: Information leak through version information hypercall
  • CVE-2015-2151 / XSA-123: Hypervisor memory corruption due to x86 emulator flaw

Additionally a bug in the fix for CVE-2014-3969 / CVE-2015-2290 / XSA-98 (which got assigned CVE-2015-2290) got addressed.

Sadly the workaround for CVE-2013-3495 / XSA-59 (Intel VT-d Interrupt Remapping engines can be evaded by native NMI interrupts) still can’t be guaranteed to cover all affected chipsets; Intel continues to be working on providing us with a complete list.

Apart from those there are many further bug fixes and improvements.

We recommend all users of the 4.4 stable series to update to this first point release.

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