Vigil@nce - Xen: privilege escalation via evtchn_reset
November 2020 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerabilities-watch-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: XenServer, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE Leap, SUSE
Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES, Xen.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: administrator access/rights, privileged
access/rights.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 23/09/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker, inside a guest system, can bypass restrictions via
evtchn_reset() of Xen, in order to escalate his privileges on the
host system.
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https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Xen-privilege-escalation-via-evtchn-reset-33393