CVE-2019-18421

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to gain host OS privileges by leveraging race conditions in pagetable promotion and demotion operations. There are issues with restartable PV type change operations. To avoid using shadow pagetables for PV guests, Xen exposes the actual hardware pagetables to the guest. In order to prevent the guest from modifying these page tables directly, Xen keeps track of how pages are used using a type system; pages must be "promoted" before being used as a pagetable, and "demoted" before being used for any other type. Xen also allows for "recursive" promotions: i.e., an operating system promoting a page to an L4 pagetable may end up causing pages to be promoted to L3s, which may in turn cause pages to be promoted to L2s, and so on. These operations may take an arbitrarily large amount of time, and so must be re-startable. Unfortunately, making recursive pagetable promotion and demotion operations restartable is incredibly complicated, and the code contains several races which, if triggered, can cause Xen to drop or retain extra type counts, potentially allowing guests to get write access to in-use pagetables. A malicious PV guest administrator may be able to escalate their privilege to that of the host. All x86 systems with untrusted PV guests are vulnerable. HVM and PVH guests cannot exercise this vulnerability.
References
Link Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00037.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/31/3 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-299.html Patch Vendor Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2BQKX7M2RHCWDBKNPX4KEBI3MJIH6AYZ/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I5WWPW4BSZDDW7VHU427XTVXV7ROOFFW/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IZYATWNUGHRBG6I3TC24YHP5Y3J7I6KH/
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/21 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-56 Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4602 Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00037.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/31/3 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-299.html Patch Vendor Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2BQKX7M2RHCWDBKNPX4KEBI3MJIH6AYZ/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I5WWPW4BSZDDW7VHU427XTVXV7ROOFFW/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IZYATWNUGHRBG6I3TC24YHP5Y3J7I6KH/
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/21 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-56 Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4602 Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:xen:xen:*:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 3 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

21 Nov 2024, 04:33

Type Values Removed Values Added
References () http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00037.html - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory () http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00037.html - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References () http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/31/3 - Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory () http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/31/3 - Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
References () http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-299.html - Patch, Vendor Advisory () http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-299.html - Patch, Vendor Advisory
References () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2BQKX7M2RHCWDBKNPX4KEBI3MJIH6AYZ/ - () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2BQKX7M2RHCWDBKNPX4KEBI3MJIH6AYZ/ -
References () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I5WWPW4BSZDDW7VHU427XTVXV7ROOFFW/ - () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I5WWPW4BSZDDW7VHU427XTVXV7ROOFFW/ -
References () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IZYATWNUGHRBG6I3TC24YHP5Y3J7I6KH/ - () https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IZYATWNUGHRBG6I3TC24YHP5Y3J7I6KH/ -
References () https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/21 - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory () https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/21 - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References () https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-56 - Third Party Advisory () https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-56 - Third Party Advisory
References () https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4602 - Third Party Advisory () https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4602 - Third Party Advisory

29 Mar 2023, 18:21

Type Values Removed Values Added
References (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2BQKX7M2RHCWDBKNPX4KEBI3MJIH6AYZ/ - (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2BQKX7M2RHCWDBKNPX4KEBI3MJIH6AYZ/ - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IZYATWNUGHRBG6I3TC24YHP5Y3J7I6KH/ - (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IZYATWNUGHRBG6I3TC24YHP5Y3J7I6KH/ - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (SUSE) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00037.html - (SUSE) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00037.html - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (DEBIAN) https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4602 - (DEBIAN) https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4602 - Third Party Advisory
References (BUGTRAQ) https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/21 - (BUGTRAQ) https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/21 - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I5WWPW4BSZDDW7VHU427XTVXV7ROOFFW/ - (FEDORA) https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I5WWPW4BSZDDW7VHU427XTVXV7ROOFFW/ - Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
References (GENTOO) https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-56 - (GENTOO) https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-56 - Third Party Advisory
CPE cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Information

Published : 2019-10-31 14:15

Updated : 2024-11-21 04:33


NVD link : CVE-2019-18421

Mitre link : CVE-2019-18421

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2019-18421


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Products Affected

opensuse

  • leap

debian

  • debian_linux

xen

  • xen

fedoraproject

  • fedora
CWE
CWE-362

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')