Summary
The remote host is missing an update to xen
announced via advisory DSA 2337-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202337-1
Insight
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the Xen virtual machine hypervisor.
CVE-2011-1166
A 64-bit guest can get one of its vCPU'ss into non-kernel mode without first providing a valid non-kernel pagetable, thereby locking up the host system.
CVE-2011-1583, CVE-2011-3262
Local users can cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted paravirtualised guest kernel image.
CVE-2011-1898
When using PCI passthrough on Intel VT-d chipsets that do not have interrupt remapping, guest OS can users to gain host OS privileges by writing to the interrupt injection registers.
The oldstable distribution (lenny) contains a different version of Xen not affected by these problems.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.1-4.
For the testing (wheezy) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.1.1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your xen packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-1166, CVE-2011-1583, CVE-2011-1898, CVE-2011-3262 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.4
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
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