The dommuupdate function in arch/x86/mm.c in Xen 4.x through 4.4.x does not properly restrict updates to only PV page tables, which allows remote PV guests to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by leveraging hardware emulation services for HVM guests using Hardware Assisted Paging (HAP).
{ "availability": "No subscription required", "ubuntu_priority": "medium", "binaries": [ { "libxenstore3.0": "4.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2", "libxen-4.4": "4.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2", "libxen-ocaml-dev": "4.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2", "libxen-dev": "4.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2", "xen-hypervisor-4.3-amd64": "4.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2", "xen-hypervisor-4.3-armhf": "4.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2", "xen-system-amd64": "4.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2", "xen-hypervisor-4.4-arm64": "4.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2", "libxen-ocaml": "4.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2", "xenstore-utils": "4.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2", "xen-system-armhf": "4.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2", "xen-hypervisor-4.1-amd64": "4.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2", "xen-hypervisor-4.4-armhf": "4.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2", "xen-hypervisor-4.4-amd64": "4.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2", "xen-utils-common": "4.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2", "xen-utils-4.4": "4.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2", "xen-system-arm64": "4.4.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2" } ] }