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openSUSE Leap 15.3: 2021:3968-1 Moderate: Xen PCI Device Issues

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Calendar Grey December 7, 2021
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A vital openSUSE safety patch resolves multiple vulnerabilities in the xen software, enhancing overall system security and stability without delay
An update that fixes 7 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2021-28702: Fixed PCI devices with RMRRs not deassigned correctly

(XSA-386) (bsc#1191363).

- CVE-2021-28704, CVE-2021-28707, CVE-2021-28708: Fixed PoD operations on

misaligned GFNs (XSA-388) (bsc#1192557).

- CVE-2021-28705, CVE-2021-28709: Fixed issues with partially successful

P2M updates on x86 (XSA-389) (bsc#1192559).

- CVE-2021-28706: Fixed guests may exceed their designated memory limit

(XSA-385) (bsc#1192554).

- Update to Xen 4.14.3 bug fix release (bsc#1027519).

Special Instructions and Notes:

Please reboot the system after installing this update.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate patch xen openSUSE PCI devices guest memory

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-15.3-2021-3968=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (aarch64 x86_64):

xen-4.14.3_04-3.15.1

xen-debugsource-4.14.3_04-3.15.1

xen-devel-4.14.3_04-3.15.1

xen-doc-html-4.14.3_04-3.15.1

xen-libs-4.14.3_04-3.15.1

xen-libs-debuginfo-4.14.3_04-3.15.1

xen-tools-4.14.3_04-3.15.1

xen-tools-debuginfo-4.14.3_04-3.15.1

xen-tools-domU-4.14.3_04-3.15.1

xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.14.3_04-3.15.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (x86_64):

xen-libs-32bit-4.14.3_04-3.15.1

xen-libs-32bit-debuginfo-4.14.3_04-3.15.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (noarch):

xen-tools-xendomains-wait-disk-4.14.3_04-3.15.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28702.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28704.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28705.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28706.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28707.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28708.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28709.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1027519

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1191363

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1192554

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1192557

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1192559

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:3968-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 .

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Topics Covered

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