openSUSE: Security Advisory for xen (openSUSE-SU-2018:1487-1)

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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1216-1) (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...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1203-1) (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...

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...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1181-1) (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...

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...

xen: request-processing loop is unbounded in blkback

The doblockioop function in 1 drivers/xen/blkback/blkback.c and 2 drivers/xen/blktap/blktap.c in Xen before 3.4.0 for the Linux kernel 2.6.18, and possibly other versions, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service infinite loop and CPU consumption via a large production request index to...