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HistoryOct 07, 2016 - 2:09 p.m.

Security update for xen (important)

2016-10-0714:09:00
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This update for xen fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2016-7092: The get_page_from_l3e function in arch/x86/mm.c in Xen
    allowed local 32-bit PV guest OS administrators to gain host OS
    privileges via vectors related to L3 recursive pagetables (bsc#995785).
  • CVE-2016-7093: Xen allowed local HVM guest OS administrators to
    overwrite hypervisor memory and consequently gain host OS privileges by
    leveraging mishandling of instruction pointer truncation during
    emulation (bsc#995789).
  • CVE-2016-7094: Buffer overflow in Xen allowed local x86 HVM guest OS
    administrators on guests running with shadow paging to cause a denial of
    service via a pagetable update (bsc#995792).
  • CVE-2016-6836: Information leakage in vmxnet3_complete_packet
    (bsc#994761).
  • CVE-2016-6888: Integer overflow in packet initialisation in VMXNET3
    device driver. Aprivileged user inside guest c… (bsc#994772).
  • CVE-2016-6833: Use after free while writing (bsc#994775).
  • CVE-2016-6835: Buffer overflow in vmxnet_tx_pkt_parse_headers() in
    vmxnet3 deviceemulation. (bsc#994625).
  • CVE-2016-6834: An infinite loop during packet fragmentation (bsc#994421).
  • CVE-2016-6258: The PV pagetable code in arch/x86/mm.c in Xen allowed
    local 32-bit PV guest OS administrators to gain host OS privileges by
    leveraging fast-paths for updating pagetable entries (bsc#988675).
  • CVE-2016-6259: Xen did not implement Supervisor Mode Access Prevention
    (SMAP) whitelisting in 32-bit exception and event delivery, which
    allowed local 32-bit PV guest OS kernels to cause a denial of service
    (hypervisor and VM crash) by triggering a safety check (bsc#988676).

These non-security issues were fixed:

  • bsc#991934: Hypervisor crash in csched_acct
  • bsc#992224: During boot of Xen Hypervisor, failed to get contiguous
    memory for DMA
  • bsc#955104: Virsh reports error "one or more references were leaked
    after disconnect from hypervisor" when "virsh save" failed due to "no
    response from client after 6 keepalive messages"
  • bsc#959552: Migration of HVM guest leads into libvirt segmentation fault
  • bsc#993665: Migration of xen guests finishes in: One or more references
    were leaked after disconnect from the hypervisor
  • bsc#959330: Guest migrations using virsh results in error "Internal
    error: received hangup / error event on socket"
  • bsc#990500: VM virsh migration fails with keepalive error:
    ":virKeepAliveTimerInternal:143 : No response from client"
  • bsc#953518: Unplug also SCSI disks in qemu-xen-traditional for upstream
    unplug protocol
  • bsc#953518: xen_platform: unplug also SCSI disks in qemu-xen
  • bsc#971949: xl: Support (by ignoring) xl migrate --live. xl migrations
    are always live
  • bsc#970135: New virtualization project clock test randomly fails on Xen
  • bsc#990970: Add PMU support for Intel E7-8867 v4 (fam=6, model=79)