OracleVM 3.1 : xen (OVMSA-2012-0021)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - x86-64: detect processors subject to AMD erratum 121 and refuse to bootCVE-2006-0744 - guest denial of service on syscall/sysenter exception generation CVE-2012-0217,CVE-2012-0218 - Remove unnecessary...

Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2012-1061)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2012-1061 advisory. - xen x8664: check address on trap handlers or guest callbacks Paolo Bonzini 813430 813431 CVE-2012-0217 - xen x8664: Do not execute sysret with a non-canonical...

PV guest host Denial of Service

ISSUE DESCRIPTION A Xen user has discovered that some older AMD CPUs can be made to lock up due to AMD processor erratum 121. This issue was discovered during testing of the fix for XSA-7 CVE-2012-0217. Although the two issues are unrelated the situations which can trigger them may overlap...

Debian DSA-2501-1 : xen - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Xen, a hypervisor. - CVE-2012-0217 Xen does not properly handle uncanonical return addresses on Intel amd64 CPUs, allowing amd64 PV guests to elevate to hypervisor privileges. AMD processors, HVM and i386 guests are not affected. - CVE-2012-0218 Xen does...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Xen (ZYPP Patch Number 8180)

Three security issues were found in XEN. Two security issues are fixed by this update : - Due to incorrect fault handling in the XEN hypervisor it was possible for a XEN guest domain administrator to execute code in the XEN host environment. CVE-2012-0217 - Also a guest user could crash the guest...

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kernel: 2.6.18-308.8.2.0.1.el5 - net bonding: fix carrier detect when bond is down orabug 12377284 - mm fix hugetlb page leak Dave McCracken orabug 12375075 - fix ia64 build error due to add-support-above-32-vcpus.patchZhenzhong Duan - x86 use dynamic vcpuinfo remap to support more than 32 vcpus...

kernel security update

kernel: 2.6.18-308.8.2.el5 - xen x8664: check address on trap handlers or guest callbacks Paolo Bonzini 813430 813431 CVE-2012-0217 - xen x8664: Do not execute sysret with a non-canonical return address Paolo Bonzini 813430 813431 CVE-2012-0217 - xen x86: prevent hv boot on AMD CPUs with Erratum...