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Fedora: 2019-bce6498890 High: xen Security Update for Various Flaws

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Calendar Grey March 21, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora's latest Xen security patch addresses multiple vulnerabilities, such as potential Denial of Service (DoS) threats, page table management issues, and device hotplug risks
xen: various flaws (#1685577) grant table transfer issues on large hosts [XSA-284] race with pass-through device hotplug [XSA-285] x86: steal_page violates page_struct access disci...

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

xen: various flaws (#1685577) grant table transfer issues on large hosts

[XSA-284] race with pass-through device hotplug [XSA-285] x86: steal_page

violates page_struct access discipline [XSA-287] x86: Inconsistent PV IOMMU

discipline [XSA-288] missing preemption in x86 PV page table unvalidation

[XSA-290] x86/PV: page type reference counting issue with failed IOMMU update

[XSA-291] x86: insufficient TLB flushing when using PCID [XSA-292] x86: PV

kernel context switch corruption [XSA-293] x86 shadow: Insufficient TLB flushing

when using PCID [XSA-294] ---- update to xen-4.10.3 ---- - insufficient TLB

flushing / improper large page mappings with AMD IOMMUs [XSA-275] (#1651665) -x86: DoS from attempting to use INVPCID with a non-canonical addresses [XSA-279]

- Fix for XSA-240 conflicts with shadow paging [XSA-280] ---- guest use of HLE

constructs may lock up host [XSA-282]

* Tue Mar 5 2019 Michael Young - 4.10.3-2

- xen: various flaws (#1685577)

grant table transfer issues on large hosts [XSA-284]

race with pass-through device hotplug [XSA-285]

x86: steal_page violates page_struct access discipline [XSA-287]

x86: Inconsistent PV IOMMU discipline [XSA-288]

missing preemption in x86 PV page table unvalidation [XSA-290]

x86/PV: page type reference counting issue with failed IOMMU update [XSA-291]

x86: insufficient TLB flushing when using PCID [XSA-292]

x86: PV kernel context switch corruption [XSA-293]

x86 shadow: Insufficient TLB flushing when using PCID [XSA-294]

* Tue Feb 26 2019 Michael Young - 4.10.3-1

- update to xen-4.10.3

adjust xen.use.fedora.ipxe.patch

drop most of xen.fedora.efi.build.patch and let efi build on i686

remove patches for issues now fixed upstream

* Tue Nov 20 2018 Michael Young - 4.10.2-4

- insufficient TLB flushing / improper large page mappings with AMD IOMMUs

[XSA-275, CVE-2018-19961, CVE-2018-19962] (#1651665)

- x86: DoS from attempting to use INVPCID with a non-canonical addresses

[XSA-279, CVE-2018-19965] (#1651970)

- Fix for XSA-240 conflicts with shadow paging [XSA-280, CVE-2018-19966]

(#1652251)

* Tue Nov 6 2018 Michael Young - 4.10.2-3

- guest use of HLE constructs may lock up host [XSA-282, CVE-2018-19967]

* Thu Oct 25 2018 Michael Young - 4.10.2-2

- x86: Nested VT-x usable even when disabled [XSA-278, CVE-2018-18883]

(#1643118)

* Tue Sep 25 2018 Michael Young - 4.10.2-1

- update to xen-4.10.2

adjust xen.use.fedora.ipxe.patch

remove patches for issues now fixed upstream

* Wed Aug 15 2018 Michael Young - 4.10.1-6

- L1 Terminal Fault speculative side channel patch bundle [XSA-273,

CVE-2018-3620, CVE-2018-3646]

drop patches also in the bundle, which also includes

Use of v2 grant tables may cause crash on ARM [XSA-268, CVE-2018-15469]

(#1616081)

x86: Incorrect MSR_DEBUGCTL handling lets guests enable BTS [XSA-269,

CVE-2018-15468] (#1616077)

oxenstored does not apply quota-maxentity [XSA-272, CVE-2018-15470]

(#1616080)

* Wed Jun 27 2018 Michael Young - 4.10.1-5

- preemption checks bypassed in x86 PV MM handling [XSA-264, CVE-2018-12891]

(#1595959)

- x86: #DB exception safety check can be triggered by a guest [XSA-265,

CVE-2018-12893] (#1595958)

- libxl fails to honour readonly flag on HVM emulated SCSI disks [XSA-266,

CVE-2018-12892] (#1595957)

* Fri Jun 15 2018 Michael Young - 4.10.1-4

- Speculative register leakage from lazy FPU context switching

[XSA-267, CVE-2018-3665]

- fix for change in iasl output

* Tue May 22 2018 Michael Young - 4.10.1-3

- Speculative Store Bypass [XSA-263, CVE-2018-3639]

(with extra patches so it applies cleanly)

* Tue May 8 2018 Michael Young - 4.10.1-2

- x86: mishandling of debug exceptions [XSA-260, CVE-2018-8897]

- x86 vHPET interrupt injection errors [XSA-261, CVE-2018-10982] (#1576089)

- qemu may drive Xen into unbounded loop [XSA-262, CVE-2018-10981] (#1576680)

* Thu May 3 2018 Michael Young - 4.10.1-1

- update to xen-4.10.1

adjust xen.use.fedora.ipxe.patch and xen.fedora.efi.build.patch

remove patches for issues now fixed upstream

package /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/xen/boot/xen-shim-syms

* Wed Apr 25 2018 Michael Young - 4.10.0-9

- Information leak via crafted user-supplied CDROM [XSA-258, CVE-2018-10472]

(#1571867)

- x86: PV guest may crash Xen with XPTI [XSA-259, CVE-2018-10471] (#1571878)

[ 1 ] Bug #1679321 - xen: xsa288: Inconsistent PV IOMMU discipline

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1679321

[ 2 ] Bug #1679326 - xen: xsa292: insufficient TLB flushing when using PCID

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1679326

[ 3 ] Bug #1679327 - xen: xsa293: PV kernel context switch corruption

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1679327

[ 4 ] Bug #1679328 - xen: xsa287: steal_page violates page_struct access discipline

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1679328

[ 5 ] Bug #1679332 - xen: xsa285: race with pass-through device hotplug

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1679332

[ 6 ] Bug #1679334 - xen: xsa290: missing preemption in x86 PV page table unvalidation

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1679334

[ 7 ] Bug #1683956 - xen: xsa294: Insufficient TLB flushing when using PCID

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1683956

[ 8 ] Bug #1685568 - xen: xsa284: grant table transfer issues on large hosts

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1685568

[ 9 ] Bug #1685570 - xen: xsa291: x86/PV: page type reference counting issue with failed IOMMU update

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1685570

[ 10 ] Bug #1647573 - CVE-2018-19961 CVE-2018-19962 xen: insufficient TLB flushing / improper large page mappings with AMD IOMMUs

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1647573

[ 11 ] Bug #1647588 - CVE-2018-19965 xen: x86: DoS from attempting to use INVPCID with a non-canonical addresses

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1647588

[ 12 ] Bug #1652235 - CVE-2018-19966 xsa280 xen: Conflicts with shadow paging due to XSA-240 incomplete fix (XSA-280)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652235

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-bce6498890' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 28
Version: 4.10.3
Release: 2.fc28
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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