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CVE-2019-19577 json

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 AMD HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges…

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-9194

cvss
7.2
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 44%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 AMD HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges by triggering data-structure access during pagetable-height updates. When running on AMD systems with an IOMMU, Xen attempted to dynamically adapt the number of levels of pagetables (the pagetable height) in the IOMMU according to the guest's address space size. The code to select and update the height had several bugs. Notably, the update was done without taking a lock which is necessary for safe operation. A malicious guest administrator can cause Xen to access data structures while they are being modified, causing Xen to crash. Privilege escalation is thought to be very difficult but cannot be ruled out. Additionally, there is a potential memory leak of 4kb per guest boot, under memory pressure. Only Xen on AMD CPUs is vulnerable. Xen running on Intel CPUs is not vulnerable. ARM systems are not vulnerable. Only systems where guests are given direct access to physical devices are vulnerable. Systems which do not use PCI pass-through are not vulnerable. Only HVM guests can exploit the vulnerability. PV and PVH guests cannot. All versions of Xen with IOMMU support are vulnerable.

Patch / fix

  • xen Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.11.3+24-g14b62ab3e5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19577

  • xen SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3-LTSS, SLES 12 SP3-BCL +4 more 4.9.4_06-3.62.1
  • xen SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2-LTSS, SLES 12 SP2-BCL +1 more 4.7.6_06-43.59.1
  • xen SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP1, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 4.12.1_06-3.9.1
  • xen SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP4, SLED 12 SP4 +1 more 4.11.3_02-2.20.1
  • xen SLE Module for Server Applications 15, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 4.10.4_08-3.28.1
  • xen SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3-LTSS, SLES 12 SP3-BCL +4 more 4.9.4_06-3.59.1
  • xen SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 4.12.1_10-3.8.1
  • xen SLES 11 SP4-LTSS 4.4.4_42-61.52.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:14444-1SUSE-SU-2020:1630-1SUSE-SU-2020:0388-1SUSE-SU-2020:0334-1SUSE-SU-2019:3338-1SUSE-SU-2019:3310-1

  • xen openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.12.1_06-lp151.2.9.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2020:0011-1

  • xen Alpine 3.10 4.12.2-r0
  • xen Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +11 more 4.13.0-r0
  • xen Alpine 3.8 4.10.4-r2
  • xen Alpine 3.9 4.11.3-r1

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-19577

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2019-19577 updated cvss 7.6

xen: vulnerability in dynamic height handling for AMD IOMMU pagetables (XSA-311 v2)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel-xen
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
  • CWE-662 Improper Synchronization

References

Sources

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