Title: EGI SVG 'ALERT' [TLP:WHITE] Various Xen CVEs [EGI-SVG-CVE-2017-8903]
Date: 2017-09-21
Updated: 2017-09-25 (recommend sites running Xen update a.s.a.p)
Affected software and risk
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Various vulnerabilities concerning Xen are listed by Xen [R 1]
Package : Xen
CVE ID : CVE-2017-8903 and many more
As far as SVG is aware, Xen is not in widespread use with respect to services
for EGI, and none of these vulnerabilities should hence present a serious risk
to EGI.
If any site becomes aware that there is a serious problem concerning Xen,
please inform us.
Actions required/recommended
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**UPDATE 2017-09-25**
Sites are recommended to update as soon as possible, if they have not done so
already.
If any site is aware that any of these or other vulnerabilities in Xen presents
a serious problem, please inform the EGI SVG.
Affected software details
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See the Xen site [R 1]
More information
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See the Xen site [R 1]
SVG was alerted to these vulnerabilities. Xen is not in widespread use in the
EGI infrastructure.
XSA-213 CVE-2017-8903
XSA-214 CVE-2017-8904
XSA-215 CVE-2017-8905
XSA-217 CVE-2017-10912
XSA-218 CVE-2017-10913
idem CVE-2017-10914
XSA-219 CVE-2017-10915
XSA-220 CVE-2017-10916
XSA-221 CVE-2017-10917
XSA-222 CVE-2017-10918
XSA-224 CVE-2017-10920
idem CVE-2017-10921
idem CVE-2017-10922
XSA-226 CVE-2017-12135
XSA-227 CVE-2017-12137
XSA-228 CVE-2017-12136
XSA-231 CVE-2017-14316
XSA-232 CVE-2017-14318
XSA-234 CVE-2017-14319
Component installation information
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See the Xen site [R 1]
TLP and URL
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** WHITE information - Unlimited distribution -
see https://go.egi.eu/tlp for distribution restrictions **
URL: https://advisories.egi.eu/Advisory-SVG-CVE-2017-8903
Minor updates may be made without re-distribution to the sites
Comments
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Comments or questions should be sent to svg-rat at mailman.egi.eu
If you find or become aware of another vulnerability which is relevant to EGI
you may report it by e-mail to
report-vulnerability at egi.eu
the EGI Software Vulnerability Group will take a look according to the
procedure defined in [R 2]
References
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[R 1] https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/
[R 2] https://documents.egi.eu/public/ShowDocument?docid=2538
Credit
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SVG was alerted to these public vulnerabilities by Mischa Salle
Timeline
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Yyyy-mm-dd [EGI-SVG-2017-CVE-2017-8903]
2017-09-18 SVG alerted to these vulnerabilities by Mischa Salle
2017-09-18 Acknowledgement from the EGI SVG to the reporter
2017-09-19 Investigation of vulnerability and relevance to EGI carried out
2017-09-20 Decided to send a simple alert to sites
2017-09-21 Alert drafted.
2017-09-22 Alert sent to sites and placed on wiki
2017-09-25 Recommend sites running Xen update a.s.a.p
Context
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This advisory has been prepared as part of the effort to fulfil EGI SVG's
purpose "To minimize the risk to the EGI infrastructure arising from software
vulnerabilities"
The risk is that assessed by the group, according to the EGI SVG issue handling
procedure [R 2] in the context of how the software is used in the EGI
infrastructure. It is the opinion of the group, we do not guarantee it to be
correct. The risk may also be higher or lower in other deployments depending on
how the software is used.
Others may re-use this information provided they:-
1) Respect the provided TLP classification
2) Credit the EGI https://www.egi.eu/ Software Vulnerability Group
On behalf of the EGI SVG,