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openSUSE Leap 42.3 Advisory: Important Xen Security Fix

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Calendar Grey August 19, 2018
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Crucial openSUSE patch tackles significant vulnerabilities in Xen, urging prompt action and implementation.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has two fixes is now available.

Description

This update for xen fixes the following security issues:

- CVE-2018-3646: Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative

execution and address translations may have allowed unauthorized

disclosure of information residing in the L1 data cache to an attacker

with local user access with guest OS privilege via a terminal page fault

and a side-channel analysis (bsc#1091107, bsc#1027519).

- Incorrect MSR_DEBUGCTL handling let guests enable BTS allowing a

malicious or buggy guest administrator can lock up the entire host

(bsc#1103276)

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

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-2018-910=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

xen-4.9.2_10-28.1

xen-debugsource-4.9.2_10-28.1

xen-devel-4.9.2_10-28.1

xen-doc-html-4.9.2_10-28.1

xen-libs-4.9.2_10-28.1

xen-libs-debuginfo-4.9.2_10-28.1

xen-tools-4.9.2_10-28.1

xen-tools-debuginfo-4.9.2_10-28.1

xen-tools-domU-4.9.2_10-28.1

xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.9.2_10-28.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3646.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1027519

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1091107

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1103276

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2434-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 le.

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