The XEN hypervisor received updates to fix various security issues and
bugs.
The following security issues were fixed:
- CVE-2015-2151: XSA-123: A hypervisor memory corruption due to x86
emulator flaw.
- CVE-2015-2045: XSA-122: Information leak through version information
hypercall.
- CVE-2015-2044: XSA-121: Information leak via internal x86 system device
emulation.
- CVE-2015-2152: XSA-119: HVM qemu was unexpectedly enabling emulated VGA
graphics backends.
- CVE-2014-3615: Information leakage when guest sets high graphics
resolution.
- CVE-2015-0361: XSA-116: A xen crash due to use after free on hvm guest
teardown.
- CVE-2014-9065, CVE-2014-9066: XSA-114: xen: p2m lock starvation.
Also the following bugs were fixed:
- bnc#919098 - XEN blktap device intermittently fails to connect
- bnc#882089 - Windows 2012 R2 fails to boot up with greater than 60 vcpus
- bnc#903680 - Problems with detecting free loop devices on Xen guest
startup
- bnc#861318 - xentop reports "Found interface vif101.0 but domain 101
does not exist."
- Update seabios to rel-1.7.3.1 which is the correct version for Xen 4.4
- Enhancement to virsh/libvirtd "send-key" command The xen side small fix.
(FATE#317240)
- bnc#901488 - Intel ixgbe driver assigns rx/tx queues per core resulting
in irq problems on servers with a large amount of CPU cores
- bnc#910254 - SLES11 SP3 Xen VT-d igb NIC doesn’t work
- Add domain_migrate_constraints_set API to Xend’s http interface
(FATE#317239)
- Restore missing fixes from block-dmmd script
- bnc#904255 - XEN boot hangs in early boot on UEFI system
- bsc#912011 - high ping latency after upgrade to latest SLES11SP3 on xen
Dom0
- Fix missing banner by restoring the figlet program.