SUSE 12-SP1: 2016:2473-1 Important Security Updates for Xen DDoS Risk
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October 7, 2016
An update that solves 10 vulnerabilities and has 11 fixes An update that solves 10 vulnerabilities and has 11 fixes An update that solves 10 vulnerabilities and has 11 fixes is now...
Summary
This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2016-7092: The get_page_from_l3e function in arch/x86/mm.c in Xen allowed local 32-bit PV guest OS administrators to gain host OS privileges via vectors related to L3 recursive pagetables (bsc#995785). - CVE-2016-7093: Xen allowed local HVM guest OS administrators to overwrite hypervisor memory and consequently gain host OS privileges by leveraging mishandling of instruction pointer truncation during emulation (bsc#995789). - CVE-2016-7094: Buffer overflow in Xen allowed local x86 HVM guest OS administrators on guests running with shadow paging to cause a denial of service via a pagetable update (bsc#995792). - CVE-2016-6836: Information leakage in vmxnet3_complete_packet (bsc#994761).
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References
#953518 #955104 #959330 #959552 #970135 #971949
#988675 #988676 #990500 #990970 #991934 #992224
#993665 #994421 #994625 #994761 #994772 #994775
#995785 #995789 #995792
Cross- CVE-2016-6258 CVE-2016-6259 CVE-2016-6833
CVE-2016-6834 CVE-2016-6835 CVE-2016-6836
CVE-2016-6888 CVE-2016-7092 CVE-2016-7093
CVE-2016-7094
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6258.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6259.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6833.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6834.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6835.html
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:2473-1
Rating: important
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