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openSUSE 12.1: 2012:0886-1 Critical: XEN Denial of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey July 18, 2012
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A patch for openSUSE 12.1 has been released to fix severe vulnerabilities in XEN, aiming to avert unauthorized access and service outages.
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update of XEN fixed multiple security flaws that could

be exploited by local attackers to cause a Denial of

Service or potentially escalate privileges. Additionally,

several other upstream changes were backported.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 12.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-403

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 12.1 (i586 x86_64):

xen-debugsource-4.1.2_17-1.10.1

xen-devel-4.1.2_17-1.10.1

xen-kmp-default-4.1.2_17_k3.1.10_1.16-1.10.1

xen-kmp-default-debuginfo-4.1.2_17_k3.1.10_1.16-1.10.1

xen-kmp-desktop-4.1.2_17_k3.1.10_1.16-1.10.1

xen-kmp-desktop-debuginfo-4.1.2_17_k3.1.10_1.16-1.10.1

xen-libs-4.1.2_17-1.10.1

xen-libs-debuginfo-4.1.2_17-1.10.1

xen-tools-domU-4.1.2_17-1.10.1

xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.1.2_17-1.10.1

- openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64):

xen-4.1.2_17-1.10.1

xen-doc-html-4.1.2_17-1.10.1

xen-doc-pdf-4.1.2_17-1.10.1

xen-libs-32bit-4.1.2_17-1.10.1

xen-libs-debuginfo-32bit-4.1.2_17-1.10.1

xen-tools-4.1.2_17-1.10.1

xen-tools-debuginfo-4.1.2_17-1.10.1

- openSUSE 12.1 (ia64):

xen-libs-debuginfo-x86-4.1.2_17-1.10.1

xen-libs-x86-4.1.2_17-1.10.1

- openSUSE 12.1 (i586):

xen-kmp-pae-4.1.2_17_k3.1.10_1.16-1.10.1

xen-kmp-pae-debuginfo-4.1.2_17_k3.1.10_1.16-1.10.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0217.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0218.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2934.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2012:0886-1
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE 12.1 .

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