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SUSE: 2012:1606-1 Critical Update for Xen Memory Vulnerabilities

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Calendar Grey December 4, 2012
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The SUSE security notice regarding Xen identifies critical flaws and provides updates for an array of products.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update fixes the following security issues in xen: * CVE-2012-5513: XENMEM_exchange may overwrite hypervisor memory (XSA-29) * CVE-2012-5515: Several memory hypercall operations allow invalid extent order values (XSA-31) Also the following bugs have been fixed and upstream patches have been applied: 26134-x86-shadow-invlpg-check.patch Security Issue references: * CVE-2012-5513 * CVE-2012-5515

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security advisory security update important memory issue SUSE Linux Xen

References

#789950 #789951

Cross- CVE-2012-5513 CVE-2012-5515

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4

SLE SDK 10 SP4

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5513.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5515.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:1606-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update important memory issue SUSE Linux Xen

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