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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:1487-1 Important Xen Security Advisory

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Calendar Grey June 1, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Release for Fedora addresses significant vulnerabilities in the KVM virtualization system, enhancing overall system integrity for its users.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has three fixes is now available.

Description

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2018-3639: Spectre V4 – Speculative Store Bypass aka "Memory

Disambiguation" (bsc#1092631)

This feature can be controlled by the "ssbd=on/off" commandline flag for

the XEN hypervisor.

- CVE-2018-10982: x86 vHPET interrupt injection errors (XSA-261

bsc#1090822)

- CVE-2018-10981: qemu may drive Xen into unbounded loop (XSA-262

bsc#1090823)

Other bugfixes:

- Upstream patches from Jan (bsc#1027519)

- additional fixes related to Page Table Isolation (XPTI). (bsc#1074562

XSA-254)

- qemu-system-i386 cannot handle more than 4 HW NICs (bsc#1090296)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP3:Update update project.

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-547=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

xen-4.9.2_06-22.1

xen-debugsource-4.9.2_06-22.1

xen-devel-4.9.2_06-22.1

xen-doc-html-4.9.2_06-22.1

xen-libs-4.9.2_06-22.1

xen-libs-debuginfo-4.9.2_06-22.1

xen-tools-4.9.2_06-22.1

xen-tools-debuginfo-4.9.2_06-22.1

xen-tools-domU-4.9.2_06-22.1

xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.9.2_06-22.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10981.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10982.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3639.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1027519

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1074562

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1090296

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1090822

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1090823

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1092631

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:1487-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 le.

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