SUSE: 2016:3241-1 Important: Xen Denial Of Service And Escalation Issues
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December 22, 2016
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available
Summary
This update for xen fixes the following issues: - A Mishandling of SYSCALL singlestep during emulation which could have lead to privilege escalation. (XSA-204, bsc#1016340, CVE-2016-10013) - CMPXCHG8B emulation failed to ignore operand size override which could have lead to information disclosure. (XSA-200, bsc#1012651, CVE-2016-9932) - PV guests may have been able to mask interrupts causing a Denial of Service. (XSA-202, bsc#1014298, CVE-2016-10024) Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-2016-1885=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2016-1885=1
References
#1012651 #1014298 #1016340
Cross- CVE-2016-10013 CVE-2016-10024 CVE-2016-9932
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10013.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10024.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9932.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1012651
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1014298
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1016340
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:3241-1
Rating: important
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