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Fedora 34: 2021:0487-3 Critical: Kernel Memory Vulnerabilities

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Calendar Grey September 2, 2021
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This Fedora security patch tackles critical concerns within qemu, rectifying various weaknesses and offering solutions.
An update that solves 11 vulnerabilities and has 7 fixes is now available

Description

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

Update to Xen 4.13.3 general bug fix release (bsc#1027519).

Security issues fixed:

- CVE-2021-28693: xen/arm: Boot modules are not scrubbed (bsc#1186428)

- CVE-2021-28692: xen: inappropriate x86 IOMMU timeout detection /

handling (bsc#1186429)

- CVE-2021-0089: xen: Speculative Code Store Bypass (bsc#1186433)

- CVE-2021-28690: xen: x86: TSX Async Abort protections not restored after

S3 (bsc#1186434)

- CVE-2021-28694,CVE-2021-28695,CVE-2021-28696: IOMMU page mapping issues

on x86 (XSA-378)(bsc#1189373).

- CVE-2021-28697: grant table v2 status pages may remain accessible after

de-allocation (XSA-379)(bsc#1189376).

- CVE-2021-28698: long running loops in grant table handling

(XSA-380)(bsc#1189378).

- CVE-2021-28699: inadequate grant-v2 status frames array bounds check

(XSA-382)(bsc#1189380).

- CVE-2021-28700: No memory limit for dom0less domUs

(XSA-383)(bsc#1189381).

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Topics Covered

security advisory security fix memory issue important issue patch information xen update openSUSE Leap

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 15.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2021-2923=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 x86_64):

xen-4.14.2_04-3.9.1

xen-debugsource-4.14.2_04-3.9.1

xen-devel-4.14.2_04-3.9.1

xen-doc-html-4.14.2_04-3.9.1

xen-libs-4.14.2_04-3.9.1

xen-libs-debuginfo-4.14.2_04-3.9.1

xen-tools-4.14.2_04-3.9.1

xen-tools-debuginfo-4.14.2_04-3.9.1

xen-tools-domU-4.14.2_04-3.9.1

xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.14.2_04-3.9.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (noarch):

xen-tools-xendomains-wait-disk-4.14.2_04-3.9.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (x86_64):

xen-libs-32bit-4.14.2_04-3.9.1

xen-libs-32bit-debuginfo-4.14.2_04-3.9.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-0089.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28690.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28692.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28693.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28694.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28695.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28696.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28697.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28698.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28699.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28700.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1027519

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1176189

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179246

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1183243

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1183877

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185682

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186428

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186429

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186433

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1186434

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1187406

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188050

https://bugzilla.suse....

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:2923-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 ble.

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security advisory security fix memory issue important issue patch information xen update openSUSE Leap

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