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Advisory-SVG-CVE-2016-9603

Title:       EGI SVG Advisory [TLP:WHITE] up to 'HIGH' risk Qemu and Xen guest escape issues CVE-2016-9603 and others [EGI-SVG-CVE-2016-9603] 

Date:        2017-06-01 
Updated:     


Affected software and risk
==========================

Up to 'HIGH' risk vulnerabilities concerning Qemu and Xen. 

Package : Qemu
CVE ID  : CVE-2016-9603

Package : Xen
CVE ID  : CVE-2017-7228, CVE-2017-8903, CVE-2017-8904, CVE-2017-8905

Various vulnerabilities have been found which may lead to guest escape.
The Risk depends on configuration, in some known configurations in EGI the Qemu one we consider to be 'High' risk. 

Actions required/recommended
============================

Sites running Qemu or Xen are recommended to update relevant components as soon as possible if they have not done already. 


Affected software details
=========================

See [R 1] to [R 6]

More information
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We consider this to be 'High' for FedCloud sites running OpenStack. 

Depending on the configuration, according to the Xen advisories for CVE-2017-7228, CVE-2017-8903 
"A malicious or buggy 64-bit PV guest may be able to access all of system memory". 
This could have serious consequences if exploited. It is not clear whether they are exploitable in the EGI infrastructure. 
It is also not clear how widespread Xen usage is in EGI.

Component installation information
==================================

See vendor's information. 

For sites running OpenStack it is recommended they have a procedure to hard-reboot all VMs if an exploit starts spreading. 

TLP and URL
===========

** WHITE information - Unlimited distribution - see https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI_CSIRT:TLP for distribution restrictions***                       
URL:   https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/SVG:Advisory-SVG-CVE-2016-9603   

Minor updates may be made without re-distribution to the sites


Comments
========

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 7]  


References
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RedHat:--

[R 1] https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-9603

Xenbits:--

[R 2] https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-211.html

[R 3] https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-212.html

[R 4] https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-213.html

[R 5] https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-214.html

[R 6] https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-215.html

SVG procedure:--

[R 7] https://documents.egi.eu/public/ShowDocument?docid=2538


Credit
======

SVG was alerted to these vulnerabilities by Mischa Salle. 


Timeline  
========
Yyyy-mm-dd  [EGI-SVG-2016-12805] 

2017-04-24 SVG alerted to CVE-2017-7228 by Mischa salle.
2017-05-17 SVG alerted to all other issues by Mischa Salle. 
2017-05-25 Investigation of vulnerability and relevance to EGI carried out
2017-05-26 EGI SVG Risk Assessment completed, advisory drafted. 
2017-04-18 to 2017-05-12 Updated packages available for various CVEs and distributions. 
2017-06-01 Advisory/Alert sent to sites



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 7]  
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,