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HistoryDec 29, 2018 - 3:11 p.m.

Security update for xen (important)

2018-12-2915:11:23
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This update for xen fixes the following issues:

Update to Xen 4.10.2 bug fix release (bsc#1027519).

Security vulnerabilities fixed:

  • CVE-2018-19961, CVE-2018-19962: Fixed an issue related to insufficient
    TLB flushing with AMD IOMMUs, which potentially allowed a guest to
    escalate its privileges, may cause a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting
    the entire host, or may be able to access data it is not supposed to
    access. (XSA-275) (bsc#1115040)
  • CVE-2018-19965: Fixed an issue related to the INVPCID instruction in
    case non-canonical addresses are accessed, which may allow a guest to
    cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the
    entire host. (XSA-279) (bsc#1115045)
  • CVE-2018-19966: Fixed an issue related to a previous fix for XSA-240,
    which conflicted with shadow paging and allowed a guest to cause Xen to
    crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-280) (bsc#1115047)
  • CVE-2018-18883: Fixed an issue related to inproper restriction of nested
    VT-x, which allowed a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial
    of Service (DoS). (XSA-278) (bsc#1114405)
  • CVE-2018-15468: Fixed incorrect MSR_DEBUGCTL handling, which allowed
    guests to enable Branch Trace Store and may cause a Denial of Service
    (DoS) of the entire host. (XSA-269) (bsc#1103276)
  • CVE-2018-15469: Fixed use of v2 grant tables on ARM, which were not
    properly implemented and may cause a Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-268)
    (bsc#1103275)
  • CVE-2018-15470: Fixed an issue in the logic in oxenstored for handling
    writes, which allowed a guest to write memory unbounded leading to
    system-wide Denial
    of Service (DoS). (XSA-272) (bsc#1103279)
  • CVE-2018-3646: Mitigations for VMM aspects of L1 Terminal Fault
    (XSA-273) (bsc#1091107)

Other bugs fixed:

  • Fixed an issue related to a domU hang on SLE12-SP3 HV (bsc#1108940)
  • Fixed an issue with xpti=no-dom0 not working as expected (bsc#1105528)
  • Fixed a kernel oops related to fs/dcache.c called by
    d_materialise_unique() (bsc#1094508)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.