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openSUSE 13.1 SUSE-SU-2015:1964-1 Important: Xen DoS Risks

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Calendar Grey November 12, 2015
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A significant openSUSE enhancement addresses various vulnerabilities in the xen framework, notably the risk of Denial-of-Service incidents.
An update that solves 12 vulnerabilities and has two fixes An update that solves 12 vulnerabilities and has two fixes An update that solves 12 vulnerabilities and has two fixes is ...

Description

xen was updated to fix 13 security issues.

These security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2015-7972: Populate-on-demand balloon size inaccuracy can crash

guests (bsc#951845).

- CVE-2015-7969: Leak of main per-domain vcpu pointer array (DoS)

(bsc#950703).

- CVE-2015-7969: Leak of per-domain profiling-related vcpu pointer array

(DoS) (bsc#950705).

- CVE-2015-7971: Some pmu and profiling hypercalls log without rate

limiting (bsc#950706).

- CVE-2015-4037: Insecure temporary file use in /net/slirp.c (bsc#932267).

- CVE-2014-0222: Validate L2 table size to avoid integer overflows

(bsc#877642).

- CVE-2015-7835: Uncontrolled creation of large page mappings by PV guests

(bsc#950367).

- CVE-2015-7311: libxl fails to honour readonly flag on disks with

qemu-xen (bsc#947165).

- CVE-2015-5165: QEMU leak of uninitialized heap memory in rtl8139 device

model (bsc#939712).

- CVE-2015-5166: Use after free in QEMU/Xen block unplug...

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-729=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

xen-debugsource-4.3.4_06-50.1

xen-devel-4.3.4_06-50.1

xen-kmp-default-4.3.4_06_k3.11.10_29-50.1

xen-kmp-default-debuginfo-4.3.4_06_k3.11.10_29-50.1

xen-kmp-desktop-4.3.4_06_k3.11.10_29-50.1

xen-kmp-desktop-debuginfo-4.3.4_06_k3.11.10_29-50.1

xen-libs-4.3.4_06-50.1

xen-libs-debuginfo-4.3.4_06-50.1

xen-tools-domU-4.3.4_06-50.1

xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.3.4_06-50.1

- openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64):

xen-4.3.4_06-50.1

xen-doc-html-4.3.4_06-50.1

xen-libs-32bit-4.3.4_06-50.1

xen-libs-debuginfo-32bit-4.3.4_06-50.1

xen-tools-4.3.4_06-50.1

xen-tools-debuginfo-4.3.4_06-50.1

xen-xend-tools-4.3.4_06-50.1

xen-xend-tools-debuginfo-4.3.4_06-50.1

- openSUSE 13.1 (i586):

xen-kmp-pae-4.3.4_06_k3.11.10_29-50.1

xen-kmp-pae-debuginfo-4.3.4_06_k3.11.10_29-50.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0222.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4037.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5154.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5165.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5166.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5239.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6815.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7311.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7835.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7969.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7971.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7972.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=877642

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=932267

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=938344

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=939709

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=939712

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=941074

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=944463

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?i...

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:1964-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1

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