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HistoryOct 12, 2016 - 3:11 p.m.

Security update for xen (important)

2016-10-1215:11:02
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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-2016-7154: Use-after-free vulnerability in the FIFO event channel
    code in Xen allowed local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of
    service (host crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code or obtain
    sensitive information via an invalid guest frame number (bsc#997731)
  • CVE-2016-6836: VMWARE VMXNET3 NIC device allowed privileged user inside
    the guest to leak information. It occured while processing transmit(tx)
    queue, when it reaches the end of packet (bsc#994761)
  • CVE-2016-6888: A integer overflow int the VMWARE VMXNET3 NIC device
    support, during the initialisation of new packets in the device, could
    have allowed a privileged user inside guest to crash the Qemu instance
    resulting in DoS (bsc#994772)
  • CVE-2016-6833: A use-after-free issue in the VMWARE VMXNET3 NIC device
    support allowed privileged user inside guest to crash the Qemu instance
    resulting in DoS (bsc#994775)
  • CVE-2016-6835: Buffer overflow in the VMWARE VMXNET3 NIC device support,
    causing an OOB read access (bsc#994625)
  • CVE-2016-6834: A infinite loop during packet fragmentation in the VMWARE
    VMXNET3 NIC device support allowed privileged user inside guest to crash
    the Qemu instance resulting in DoS (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)

These non-security issues were fixed:

  • bsc#993507: virsh detach-disk failing to detach disk
  • bsc#991934: Xen hypervisor crash in csched_acct
  • bsc#992224: During boot of Xen Hypervisor, Failed to get contiguous
    memory for DMA
  • bsc#970135: New virtualization project clock test randomly fails on Xen
  • bsc#994136: Unplug also SCSI disks in qemu-xen-traditional for upstream
    unplug protocol
  • bsc#994136: xen_platform: unplug also SCSI disks in qemu-xen
  • bsc#971949: xl: Support (by ignoring) xl migrate --live. xl migrations
    are always live
  • bsc#990970: Add PMU support for Intel E7-8867 v4 (fam=6, model=79)
  • bsc#966467: Live Migration SLES 11 SP3 to SP4 on AMD