openSUSE: 2018:0459-1: important: xen
Description
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 vga_draw_text 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 cirrus_invalidate_region 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#1067317: pass cache=writeback|unsafe|directsync to qemu depending on the libxl disk settings - bsc#1051729: Prevent invalid symlinks after install of SLES 12 SP2 - bsc#1035442: Increased the value of LIBXL_DESTROY_TIMEOUT from 10 to 100 seconds. If many domUs shutdown in parallel the backends couldn't keep up - bsc#1027519: Added several upstream patches This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP3:Update update project.
Patch
Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE Leap 42.3: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-169=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List
- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64): xen-4.9.1_08-16.1 xen-debugsource-4.9.1_08-16.1 xen-devel-4.9.1_08-16.1 xen-doc-html-4.9.1_08-16.1 xen-libs-4.9.1_08-16.1 xen-libs-debuginfo-4.9.1_08-16.1 xen-tools-4.9.1_08-16.1 xen-tools-debuginfo-4.9.1_08-16.1 xen-tools-domU-4.9.1_08-16.1 xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.9.1_08-16.1
References
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15595.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17563.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17564.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17565.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17566.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18030.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5715.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5753.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5754.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5683.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/1027519 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1035442 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1051729 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1061081 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1067317 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1068032 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1070158 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1070159 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1070160 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1070163 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1074562 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1076116 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1076180--
