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openSUSE Leap 42.2 Advisory: 2017:1221-1 Important Xen Threats

opensuse
Calendar Grey May 9, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Urgent security patch for Fedora: addresses buffer overflow problems and possible exploits in libvirt.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 6 fixes An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 6 fixes An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 6 fixes is now...

Description

This update for xen fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed:

- A malicious 64-bit PV guest may be able to access all of system memory,

allowing for all of privilege escalation, host crashes, and information

leaks by placing a IRET hypercall in the middle of a multicall batch

(XSA-213, bsc#1034843)

- A malicious pair of guests may be able to access all of system memory,

allowing for all of privilege escalation, host crashes, and information

leaks because of a missing check when transfering pages via

GNTTABOP_transfer (XSA-214, bsc#1034844).

- CVE-2017-7718: hw/display/cirrus_vga_rop.h allowed local guest OS

privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and

QEMU process crash) via vectors related to copying VGA data via the

cirrus_bitblt_rop_fwd_transp_ and cirrus_bitblt_rop_fwd_ functions

(bsc#1034994).

- CVE-2016-9603: A privileged user within the guest VM could have caused a

...

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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 Leap 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-563=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):

xen-debugsource-4.7.2_04-11.6.1

xen-devel-4.7.2_04-11.6.1

xen-libs-4.7.2_04-11.6.1

xen-libs-debuginfo-4.7.2_04-11.6.1

xen-tools-domU-4.7.2_04-11.6.1

xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.7.2_04-11.6.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (x86_64):

xen-4.7.2_04-11.6.1

xen-doc-html-4.7.2_04-11.6.1

xen-libs-32bit-4.7.2_04-11.6.1

xen-libs-debuginfo-32bit-4.7.2_04-11.6.1

xen-tools-4.7.2_04-11.6.1

xen-tools-debuginfo-4.7.2_04-11.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9603.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7718.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1022703

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1028655

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1029827

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1030144

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1034843

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1034844

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1034994

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1036146

Severity
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:1221-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2

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