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HistoryMar 27, 2015 - 10:04 a.m.

Security update for Xen (important)

2015-03-2710:04:56
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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.