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HistoryApr 20, 2017 - 9:08 p.m.

Security update for xen (important)

2017-04-2021:08:54
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This update for xen fixes the following issues:

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2017-7228: Broken check in memory_exchange() permited PV guest
    breakout (bsc#1030442).
  • XSA-206: Unprivileged guests issuing writes to xenstore were able to
    stall progress of the control domain or driver domain, possibly leading
    to a Denial of Service (DoS) of the entire host (bsc#1030144).
  • CVE-2017-6505: The ohci_service_ed_list function in hw/usb/hcd-ohci.c
    allowed local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite
    loop) via vectors involving the number of link endpoint list descriptors
    (bsc#1028235).
  • CVE-2017-6414: Memory leak in the vcard_apdu_new function in card_7816.c
    in libcacard allowed local guest OS users to cause a denial of service
    (host memory consumption) via vectors related to allocating a new APDU
    object (bsc#1027570).
  • CVE-2017-2633: The VNC display driver support was vulnerable to an
    out-of-bounds memory access issue. A user/process inside guest could use
    this flaw to cause DoS (bsc#1026636).
  • CVE-2016-9603: A privileged user within the guest VM can cause a heap
    overflow in the device model process, potentially escalating their
    privileges to that of the device model process (bsc#1028655).

These non-security issues were fixed:

  • bsc#1022555: Timeout in "execution of /etc/xen/scripts/block add"
  • bsc#1029827: Forward port xenstored