CVE-2019-19581

MEDIUM

Xen 4.8.0-4.12.0 - Denial of Service via 32-bit Arm Bitmap Iteration

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing 32-bit Arm guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access) because certain bit iteration is mishandled. In a number of places bitmaps are being used by the hypervisor to track certain state. Iteration over all bits involves functions which may misbehave in certain corner cases: On 32-bit Arm accesses to bitmaps with bit a count which is a multiple of 32, an out of bounds access may occur. A malicious guest may cause a hypervisor crash or hang, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). All versions of Xen are vulnerable. 32-bit Arm systems are vulnerable. 64-bit Arm systems are not vulnerable.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-307.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4602
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/21
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-56

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0010
EPSS Percentile 27.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (2)
fedoraproject/fedora 31
xen/xen 4.8.0 - 4.12.1
Published Dec 11, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026