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HistoryMay 09, 2018 - 6:08 p.m.

Security update for xen (important)

2018-05-0918:08:03
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This update for xen fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 (XSA-260,
    bsc#1090820)
  • Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or
    buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially
    privilege escalation/information leaks (XSA-261, bsc#1090822)
  • Prevent unbounded loop, induced by qemu allowing an attacker to
    permanently keep a physical CPU core busy (XSA-262, bsc#1090823)
  • CVE-2018-10472: x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain configurations) were
    able to read arbitrary dom0 files via QMP live insertion of a CDROM, in
    conjunction with specifying the target file as the backing file of a
    snapshot (bsc#1089152).
  • CVE-2018-10471: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a denial of
    service (out-of-bounds zero write and hypervisor crash) via unexpected
    INT 80 processing, because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-5754
    (bsc#1089635).
  • CVE-2018-7550: The load_multiboot function allowed local guest OS users
    to execute arbitrary code on the host via a mh_load_end_addr value
    greater than mh_bss_end_addr, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or
    write memory access (bsc#1083292).

This non-security issue was fixed:

  • bsc#1072834: Prevent unchecked MSR access error
  • bsc#1057493: Prevent DomU crashes
  • bsc#1086107: Fixed problems with backports for XSA-246 and XSA-247