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HistoryNov 10, 2015 - 6:10 p.m.

Security update for xen (important)

2015-11-1018:10:12
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EPSS

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91.7%

xen was updated to fix eight security issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2015-4037: The slirp_smb function in net/slirp.c created temporary
    files with predictable names, which allowed local users to cause a
    denial of service (instantiation failure) by creating /tmp/qemu-smb.-
    files before the program (bsc#932267).
  • CVE-2014-0222: Integer overflow in the qcow_open function allowed remote
    attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large L2 table in a
    QCOW version 1 image (bsc#877642).
  • CVE-2015-7835: Uncontrolled creation of large page mappings by PV guests
    (bsc#950367).
  • CVE-2015-5239: Integer overflow in vnc_client_read() and
    protocol_client_msg() (bsc#944463).
  • CVE-2015-6815: With e1000 NIC emulation support it was possible to enter
    an infinite loop (bsc#944697).
  • CVE-2015-7969: Leak of main per-domain vcpu pointer array leading to
    denial of service (bsc#950703).
  • CVE-2015-7969: Leak of per-domain profiling- related vcpu pointer array
    leading to denial of service (bsc#950705).
  • CVE-2015-7971: Some pmu and profiling hypercalls log without rate
    limiting (bsc#950706).