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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2017:2821-1 Important: Xen DoS Issues Fixed

opensuse
Calendar Grey October 21, 2017
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This patch addresses 7 bugs impacting xen on openSUSE, providing solutions for resource exhaustion and memory overflow.
An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has three fixes An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has three fixes An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has three fixes ...

Description

This update for xen fixes several issues:

These security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2017-5526: The ES1370 audio device emulation support was vulnerable

to a memory leakage issue allowing a privileged user inside the guest to

cause a DoS and/or potentially crash the Qemu process on the host

(bsc#1059777)

- CVE-2017-15593: Missing cleanup in the page type system allowed a

malicious or buggy PV guest to cause DoS (XSA-242 bsc#1061084)

- CVE-2017-15592: A problem in the shadow pagetable code allowed a

malicious or buggy HVM guest to cause DoS or cause hypervisor memory

corruption potentially allowing the guest to escalate its privilege

(XSA-243 bsc#1061086)

- CVE-2017-15594: Problematic handling of the selector fields in the

Interrupt Descriptor Table (IDT) allowed a malicious or buggy x86 PV

guest to escalate its privileges or cause DoS (XSA-244 bsc#1061087)

- CVE-2017-15591: Missing checks in the handling of DMOPs...

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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 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-1181=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

xen-4.9.0_14-10.1

xen-debugsource-4.9.0_14-10.1

xen-devel-4.9.0_14-10.1

xen-doc-html-4.9.0_14-10.1

xen-libs-4.9.0_14-10.1

xen-libs-debuginfo-4.9.0_14-10.1

xen-tools-4.9.0_14-10.1

xen-tools-debuginfo-4.9.0_14-10.1

xen-tools-domU-4.9.0_14-10.1

xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.9.0_14-10.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15588.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15589.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15590.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15592.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15593.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15594.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15595.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5526.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1027519

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1055321

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1059777

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1061076

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1061077

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1061080

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1061081

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1061082

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1061084

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1061086

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1061087

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:2821-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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