SUSE-SU-2018:0472-1

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Import Source

https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/osv/SUSE-SU-2018:0472-1.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/SUSE-SU-2018:0472-1

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Published

2018-02-19T09:15:16Z

Modified

2018-02-19T09:15:16Z

Summary

Security update for xen

Details

This update for xen fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754: Prevent information leaks via side effects of speculative execution, aka 'Spectre' and 'Meltdown' attacks (bsc#1074562, bsc#1068032)
CVE-2017-15595: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a DoS (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking (bsc#1061081)
CVE-2017-17566: Prevent PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges in shadow mode by mapping a certain auxiliary page (bsc#1070158).
CVE-2017-17563: Prevent guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging an incorrect mask for reference-count overflow checking in shadow mode (bsc#1070159).
CVE-2017-17564: Prevent guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging incorrect error handling for reference counting in shadow mode (bsc#1070160).
CVE-2017-17565: Prevent PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) if shadow mode and log-dirty mode are in place, because of an incorrect assertion related to M2P (bsc#1070163).
CVE-2018-5683: The vgadrawtext function allowed local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) by leveraging improper memory address validation (bsc#1076116).
CVE-2017-18030: The cirrusinvalidateregion function allowed local OS guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to negative pitch (bsc#1076180).

These non-security issues were fixed:

bsc#1051729: Prevent invalid symlinks after install of SLES 12 SP2
bsc#1035442: Increased the value of LIBXLDESTROYTIMEOUT from 10 to 100 seconds. If many domUs shutdown in parallel the backends couldn't keep up
bsc#1027519: Added several upstream patches

References

Affected packages

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 / xen

Package

Name: xen
Purl: purl:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP2

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

4.7.4_06-43.24.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "xen-libs": "4.7.4_06-43.24.1",
            "xen-libs-32bit": "4.7.4_06-43.24.1",
            "xen": "4.7.4_06-43.24.1"
        }
    ]
}

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2 / xen

Package

Name: xen
Purl: purl:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP2

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

4.7.4_06-43.24.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "xen-devel": "4.7.4_06-43.24.1"
        }
    ]
}

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 / xen

Package

Name: xen
Purl: purl:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

4.7.4_06-43.24.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "xen-libs": "4.7.4_06-43.24.1",
            "xen-doc-html": "4.7.4_06-43.24.1",
            "xen-libs-32bit": "4.7.4_06-43.24.1",
            "xen-tools": "4.7.4_06-43.24.1",
            "xen-tools-domU": "4.7.4_06-43.24.1",
            "xen": "4.7.4_06-43.24.1"
        }
    ]
}

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 / xen

Package

Name: xen
Purl: purl:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

4.7.4_06-43.24.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "xen-libs": "4.7.4_06-43.24.1",
            "xen-doc-html": "4.7.4_06-43.24.1",
            "xen-libs-32bit": "4.7.4_06-43.24.1",
            "xen-tools": "4.7.4_06-43.24.1",
            "xen-tools-domU": "4.7.4_06-43.24.1",
            "xen": "4.7.4_06-43.24.1"
        }
    ]
}