Security Bulletin: PowerKVM has released updates in response to the vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown.

Summary PowerKVM may be affected by vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. IBM has now addressed these vulnerabilities. IBM has released the following updates for PowerKVM in response to CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5754. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-5753 CVEID: CVE-2017-5715...

Security update for qemu (important)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre v4 vulnerability mitigation support for KVM guests bsc1092885. Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of al...

SUSE-SU-2018:1386-1 Security update for qemu

This update for qemu fixes several issues. This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre v4 vulnerability mitigation support for KVM guests bsc1092885. Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prio...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2018:1378-1) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes several issues. This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre v4 vulnerability mitigation support for KVM guests bsc1092885. Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all pri...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2018:1363-1) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes several issues. This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre v4 vulnerability mitigation support for KVM guests bsc1092885. Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all pri...

SUSE-SU-2018:1378-1 Security update for qemu

This update for qemu fixes several issues. This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre v4 vulnerability mitigation support for KVM guests bsc1092885. Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prio...

SUSE-SU-2018:1363-1 Security update for qemu

This update for qemu fixes several issues. This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre v4 vulnerability mitigation support for KVM guests bsc1092885. Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prio...

SUSE-SU-2018:1362-1 Security update for qemu

This update for qemu fixes several issues. This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre v4 vulnerability mitigation support for KVM guests bsc1092885. Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prio...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1202-1) (Meltdown)

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 XSA-260, bsc1090820 - Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially...

CVE-2018-1118

Linux kernel vhost since version 4.8 does not properly initialize memory in messages passed between virtual guests and the host operating system in the vhost/vhost.c:vhostnewmsg function. This can allow local privileged users to read some kernel memory contents when reading from the /dev/vhost-ne...

CVE-2018-1118

Linux kernel vhost since version 4.8 does not properly initialize memory in messages passed between virtual guests and the host operating system in the vhost/vhost.c:vhostnewmsg function. This can allow local privileged users to read some kernel memory contents when reading from the /dev/vhost-ne...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1177-1) (Meltdown)

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 XSA-260, bsc1090820 - Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially...

Kernel: KVM: error in exception handling leads to wrong debug stack value

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor handled exceptions delivered after a stack switch operation via Mov SS or Pop SS instructions. During the stack switch operation, the processor did not deliver interrupts and exceptions, rather they are delivered once the first...

x86 vHPET interrupt injection errors

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The High Precision Event Timer HPET can be configured to deliver interrupts in one of three different modes - through legacy interrupts; through the IO-APIC; or optionally via a method similar to PCI MSI. The last mode is optional and not implemented by Xen. However, of the firs...

qemu may drive Xen into unbounded loop

ISSUE DESCRIPTION When Xen sends requests to a device model, the next expected action inside Xen is tracked using a state field. The requests themselves are placed in a memory page shared with the device model, so that the device model can communicate to Xen its progress on the request. The state...

CVE-2018-5518

On F5 BIG-IP 13.0.0-13.1.0.5 or 12.0.0-12.1.3.3, malicious root users with access to a VCMP guest can cause a disruption of service on adjacent VCMP guests running on the same host. Exploiting this vulnerability causes the vCMPd process on the adjacent VCMP guest to restart and produce a core fil...

Design/Logic Flaw

On F5 BIG-IP 13.0.0-13.1.0.5 or 12.0.0-12.1.3.3, malicious root users with access to a VCMP guest can cause a disruption of service on adjacent VCMP guests running on the same host. Exploiting this vulnerability causes the vCMPd process on the adjacent VCMP guest to restart and produce a core fil...

CVE-2018-5518

On F5 BIG-IP 13.0.0-13.1.0.5 or 12.0.0-12.1.3.3, malicious root users with access to a VCMP guest can cause a disruption of service on adjacent VCMP guests running on the same host. Exploiting this vulnerability causes the vCMPd process on the adjacent VCMP guest to restart and produce a core fil...

CVE-2018-5518

On F5 BIG-IP 13.0.0-13.1.0.5 or 12.0.0-12.1.3.3, malicious root users with access to a VCMP guest can cause a disruption of service on adjacent VCMP guests running on the same host. Exploiting this vulnerability causes the vCMPd process on the adjacent VCMP guest to restart and produce a core fil...

ALPINE-CVE-2018-10471

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.10.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds zero write and hypervisor crash via unexpected INT 80 processing, because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-5754...