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openSUSE 42.1: 2016:2494-1 Important: Xen Security Fixes and Updates

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Calendar Grey October 11, 2016
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The recent security enhancement for xen addresses significant vulnerabilities in openSUSE. Ensure your system's safety by applying the most current updates.
An update that solves 46 vulnerabilities and has 17 fixes An update that solves 46 vulnerabilities and has 17 fixes An update that solves 46 vulnerabilities and has 17 fixes is now...

Description

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

These security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2016-7092: The get_page_from_l3e function in arch/x86/mm.c in Xen

allowed local 32-bit PV guest OS administrators to gain host OS

privileges via vectors related to L3 recursive pagetables (bsc#995785)

- CVE-2016-7093: Xen allowed local HVM guest OS administrators to

overwrite hypervisor memory and consequently gain host OS privileges by

leveraging mishandling of instruction pointer truncation during

emulation (bsc#995789)

- CVE-2016-7094: Buffer overflow in Xen allowed local x86 HVM guest OS

administrators on guests running with shadow paging to cause a denial of

service via a pagetable update (bsc#995792)

- CVE-2016-6836: VMWARE VMXNET3 NIC device support was leaging information

leakage. A privileged user inside guest could have used this to leak

host memory bytes to a guest (boo#994761)

- CVE-2016-6888: Integer overflow in packet...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical issues important update openSUSE xen security system patching

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-2016-1170=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

xen-debugsource-4.5.3_10-15.2

xen-devel-4.5.3_10-15.2

xen-libs-4.5.3_10-15.2

xen-libs-debuginfo-4.5.3_10-15.2

xen-tools-domU-4.5.3_10-15.2

xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.5.3_10-15.2

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

xen-4.5.3_10-15.2

xen-doc-html-4.5.3_10-15.2

xen-kmp-default-4.5.3_10_k4.1.31_30-15.2

xen-kmp-default-debuginfo-4.5.3_10_k4.1.31_30-15.2

xen-libs-32bit-4.5.3_10-15.2

xen-libs-debuginfo-32bit-4.5.3_10-15.2

xen-tools-4.5.3_10-15.2

xen-tools-debuginfo-4.5.3_10-15.2

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3615.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3672.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7512.html

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

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

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

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8613.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8743.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1714.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1981.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3158.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3159.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3710.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3712.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3960.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4001.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4002.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4020.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4037.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:2494-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1

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security advisory denial of service critical issues important update openSUSE xen security system patching

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