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HistoryMar 05, 2018 - 9:08 p.m.

Security update for xen (important)

2018-03-0521:08:54
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This update for xen fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754: Prevent information leaks
    via side effects of speculative execution, aka "Spectre" and "Meltdown"
    attacks (bsc#1074562, bsc#1068032)
  • CVE-2018-5683: The vga_draw_text function allowed local OS guest
    privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and
    QEMU process crash) by leveraging improper memory address validation
    (bsc#1076116).
  • CVE-2017-18030: The cirrus_invalidate_region function allowed local OS
    guest privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array
    access and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to negative pitch
    (bsc#1076180).
  • CVE-2017-15595: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a DoS
    (unbounded recursion, stack consumption, and hypervisor crash) or
    possibly gain privileges via crafted page-table stacking (bsc#1061081)
  • CVE-2017-17566: Prevent PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service
    (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges in shadow mode by mapping a
    certain auxiliary page (bsc#1070158).
  • CVE-2017-17563: Prevent guest OS users to cause a denial of service
    (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging an incorrect
    mask for reference-count overflow checking in shadow mode (bsc#1070159).
  • CVE-2017-17564: Prevent guest OS users to cause a denial of service
    (host OS crash) or gain host OS privileges by leveraging incorrect error
    handling for reference counting in shadow mode (bsc#1070160).
  • CVE-2017-17565: Prevent PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service
    (host OS crash) if shadow mode and log-dirty mode are in place, because
    of an incorrect assertion related to M2P (bsc#1070163).
  • Added missing intermediate preemption checks for guest requesting
    removal of memory. This allowed malicious guest administrator to cause
    denial of service due to the high cost of this operation (bsc#1080635).
  • Because of XEN not returning the proper error messages when
    transitioning grant tables from v2 to v1 a malicious guest was able to
    cause DoS or potentially allowed for privilege escalation as well as
    information leaks (bsc#1080662).

This non-security issue was fixed:

  • bsc#1035442: Increased the value of LIBXL_DESTROY_TIMEOUT from 10 to 100
    seconds. If many domUs shutdown in parallel the backends couldn’t keep up