vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-11740): Xen vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Apr 14, 2020
Added
Sep 20, 2022
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in xenoprof in Xen through 4.13.x, allowing guest OS users (without active profiling) to obtain sensitive information about other guests. Unprivileged guests can request to map xenoprof buffers, even if profiling has not been enabled for those guests. These buffers were not scrubbed.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libxendevicemodel1ubuntu-upgrade-libxenevtchn1ubuntu-upgrade-libxengnttab1ubuntu-upgrade-libxenmisc4-11ubuntu-upgrade-xen-hypervisor-4-11-amd64ubuntu-upgrade-xen-hypervisor-4-11-arm64ubuntu-upgrade-xen-hypervisor-4-11-armhfubuntu-upgrade-xen-utils-4-11ubuntu-upgrade-xen-utils-commonubuntu-upgrade-xenstore-utils

References

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