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HistoryJul 08, 2017 - 3:12 p.m.

Security update for xen (important)

2017-07-0815:12:52
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This update for xen fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2017-10912: Page transfer might have allowed PV guest to elevate
    privilege (XSA-217, bsc#1042882)
  • CVE-2017-10913 CVE-2017-10914: Races in the grant table unmap code
    allowed for informations leaks and potentially privilege escalation
    (XSA-218, bsc#1042893)
  • CVE-2017-10915: Insufficient reference counts during shadow emulation
    allowed a malicious pair of guest to elevate their privileges to the
    privileges that XEN runs under (XSA-219, bsc#1042915)
  • CVE-2017-10917: Missing NULL pointer check in event channel poll allows
    guests to DoS the host (XSA-221, bsc#1042924)
  • CVE-2017-10918: Stale P2M mappings due to insufficient error checking
    allowed malicious guest to leak information or elevate privileges
    (XSA-222, bsc#1042931)
  • CVE-2017-10920, CVE-2017-10921, CVE-2017-10922: Grant table operations
    mishandled reference counts allowing malicious guests to escape
    (XSA-224, bsc#1042938)
  • CVE-2017-9330: USB OHCI Emulation in qemu allowed local guest OS users
    to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by leveraging an incorrect
    return value (bsc#1042160)
  • CVE-2017-8309: Memory leak in the audio/audio.c allowed remote attackers
    to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by repeatedly starting
    and stopping audio capture (bsc#1037243)
  • PKRU and BND* leakage between vCPU-s might have leaked information to
    other guests (XSA-220, bsc#1042923)

These non-security issues were fixed:

  • bsc#1027519: Included various upstream patches
  • bsc#1035642: Ensure that rpmbuild works

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.