vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2020-25604): Xen vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 23, 2020
Added
Sep 20, 2022
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. There is a race condition when migrating timers between x86 HVM vCPUs. When migrating timers of x86 HVM guests between its vCPUs, the locking model used allows for a second vCPU of the same guest (also operating on the timers) to release a lock that it didn't acquire. The most likely effect of the issue is a hang or crash of the hypervisor, i.e., a Denial of Service (DoS). All versions of Xen are affected. Only x86 systems are vulnerable. Arm systems are not vulnerable. Only x86 HVM guests can leverage the vulnerability. x86 PV and PVH cannot leverage the vulnerability. Only guests with more than one vCPU can exploit the vulnerability.

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

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