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openSUSE Leap 15.2 Advisory: 2020:0985-1 Important Xen Issues

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Calendar Grey July 18, 2020
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This crucial notification tackles multiple concerns in xen for openSUSE, enhancing both resilience and safety.
An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2020-15563: Fixed inverted code paths in x86 dirty VRAM tracking

(bsc#1173377).

- CVE-2020-15565: Fixed insufficient cache write-back under VT-d

(bsc#1173378).

- CVE-2020-15566: Fixed incorrect error handling in event channel port

allocation (bsc#1173376).

- CVE-2020-15567: Fixed non-atomic modification of live EPT PTE

(bsc#1173380).

- CVE-2020-0543: Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) aka

"CrossTalk" (bsc#1172205).

Additional upstream bug fixes (bsc#1027519)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP2: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 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-985=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (i586 x86_64):

xen-debugsource-4.13.1_04-lp152.2.3.1

xen-devel-4.13.1_04-lp152.2.3.1

xen-libs-4.13.1_04-lp152.2.3.1

xen-libs-debuginfo-4.13.1_04-lp152.2.3.1

xen-tools-domU-4.13.1_04-lp152.2.3.1

xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.13.1_04-lp152.2.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

xen-4.13.1_04-lp152.2.3.1

xen-doc-html-4.13.1_04-lp152.2.3.1

xen-libs-32bit-4.13.1_04-lp152.2.3.1

xen-libs-32bit-debuginfo-4.13.1_04-lp152.2.3.1

xen-tools-4.13.1_04-lp152.2.3.1

xen-tools-debuginfo-4.13.1_04-lp152.2.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

xen-tools-xendomains-wait-disk-4.13.1_04-lp152.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-0543.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15563.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15565.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15566.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15567.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1027519

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1172205

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1173376

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1173377

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1173378

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1173380

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0985-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 le.

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