openSUSE Leap 15.0: 2018:1623-1 Important: Xen Security Issue Mitigation
opensuse
June 9, 2018
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.
Description
This update for xen to version 4.10.1 fixes several issues (bsc#1027519).
These security issues were fixed:
- CVE-2018-3639: Prevent attackers with local user access from extracting
information via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Store Bypass
(SSB), Variant 4 (bsc#1092631).
- CVE-2017-5753,CVE-2017-5715,CVE-2017-5754: Improved Spectre v2
mitigations (bsc#1074562).
This non-security issue was fixed:
- Always call qemus xen-save-devices-state in suspend/resume to fix
migration with qcow2 images (bsc#1079730)
Topics Covered
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 15.0:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-599=1
Package List
- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (i586 x86_64):
xen-debugsource-4.10.1_04-lp150.2.3.1
xen-devel-4.10.1_04-lp150.2.3.1
xen-libs-4.10.1_04-lp150.2.3.1
xen-libs-debuginfo-4.10.1_04-lp150.2.3.1
xen-tools-domU-4.10.1_04-lp150.2.3.1
xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.10.1_04-lp150.2.3.1
- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):
xen-4.10.1_04-lp150.2.3.1
xen-doc-html-4.10.1_04-lp150.2.3.1
xen-libs-32bit-4.10.1_04-lp150.2.3.1
xen-libs-32bit-debuginfo-4.10.1_04-lp150.2.3.1
xen-tools-4.10.1_04-lp150.2.3.1
xen-tools-debuginfo-4.10.1_04-lp150.2.3.1
References
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5715.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5753.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5754.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/1079730
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1092631
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:1623-1
Rating: important
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 15.0
Topics Covered
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