Bug 1765043 (CVE-2019-18421)
| Summary: | CVE-2019-18421 xen: a malicious PV guest administrator may be able to escalate their privilege to that of the host | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Marian Rehak <mrehak> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | acaringi, ailan, bhu, brdeoliv, dhoward, drjones, dvlasenk, fhrbata, hkrzesin, imammedo, jforbes, jshortt, jstancek, knoel, m.a.young, mrezanin, nmurray, pbonzini, rkrcmar, robinlee.sysu, rvrbovsk, security-response-team, vkuznets, xen-maint |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
| Doc Text: |
A flaw was found in xen. Several race conditions exist that, if triggered, can cause Xen to drop or retain extra type counts allowing guests to get write access to in-use pagetables. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as to system availability.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2020-02-24 15:16:04 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1767726 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1762982 | ||
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Description
Marian Rehak
2019-10-24 08:32:42 UTC
Created xen tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1767726] |