Vigil@nce - Xen: denial of service via INVPCID Non-canonical Addresses
January 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: XenServer, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE Leap, SUSE
Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES, Xen.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: denial of service on server, denial of service on
service.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 21/11/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker, inside a guest system, can generate a fatal error via
INVPCID Non-canonical Addresses of Xen, in order to trigger a
denial of service on the host system.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Xen-denial-of-service-via-INVPCID-Non-canonical-Addresses-27846