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openSUSE Leap 42.1 Advisory 2016:0126-1 Critical: Xen Security Fix

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Calendar Grey January 14, 2016
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Important patch for openSUSE addresses 14 security flaws in xen, improving overall system protection and reliability.
An update that fixes 14 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2015-8567,CVE-2015-8568: xen: qemu: net: vmxnet3: host memory

leakage (boo#959387)

- CVE-2015-8550: xen: paravirtualized drivers incautious about shared

memory contents (XSA-155, boo#957988)

- CVE-2015-8558: xen: qemu: usb: infinite loop in ehci_advance_state

results in DoS (boo#959006)

- CVE-2015-7549: xen: qemu pci: null pointer dereference issue (boo#958918)

- CVE-2015-8504: xen: qemu: ui: vnc: avoid floating point exception

(boo#958493)

- CVE-2015-8554: xen: qemu-dm buffer overrun in MSI-X handling (XSA-164,

boo#958007)

- CVE-2015-8555: xen: information leak in legacy x86 FPU/XMM

initialization (XSA-165, boo#958009)

- boo#958523: xen: ioreq handling possibly susceptible to multiple read

issue (XSA-166)

- CVE-2015-8345: xen: qemu: net: eepro100: infinite loop in processing

command block list (boo#956832)

- CVE-2015-5307: xen: x86: CPU lockup during fault...

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical important system stability openSUSE xen patch

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-36=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

xen-debugsource-4.5.2_04-9.2

xen-devel-4.5.2_04-9.2

xen-libs-4.5.2_04-9.2

xen-libs-debuginfo-4.5.2_04-9.2

xen-tools-domU-4.5.2_04-9.2

xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.5.2_04-9.2

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

xen-4.5.2_04-9.2

xen-doc-html-4.5.2_04-9.2

xen-kmp-default-4.5.2_04_k4.1.13_5-9.2

xen-kmp-default-debuginfo-4.5.2_04_k4.1.13_5-9.2

xen-libs-32bit-4.5.2_04-9.2

xen-libs-debuginfo-32bit-4.5.2_04-9.2

xen-tools-4.5.2_04-9.2

xen-tools-debuginfo-4.5.2_04-9.2

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5307.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7504.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7549.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8339.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8340.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8341.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8345.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8504.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8550.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8554.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8555.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8558.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8567.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8568.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=954018

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956408

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956409

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956411

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956592

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_b...

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0126-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 .

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security advisory security update critical important system stability openSUSE xen patch

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