| Name | CVE-2020-29040 |
| Description | An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (stack corruption), cause a data leak, or possibly gain privileges because of an off-by-one error. NOTE: this issue is caused by an incorrect fix for CVE-2020-27671. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 976109 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| xen (PTS) | bullseye | 4.14.6-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 4.14.5+94-ge49571868d-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 4.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 4.17.3+36-g54dacb5c02-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| xen | source | stretch | (not affected) | | | |
| xen | source | buster | (not affected) | | | |
| xen | source | (unstable) | 4.14.0+88-g1d1d1f5391-1 | | | 976109 |
Notes
[buster] - xen <not-affected> (Patches for XSA-346 not applied)
[stretch] - xen <not-affected> (Patches for XSA-346 not applied)
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-355.html
Issue introduced by changes for XSA-346.