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SUSE: 2018:0758-1 Urgent: Various Kernel Vulnerabilities Addressed

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Calendar Grey March 10, 2017
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Patch for xen addresses 14 vulnerabilities including Denial of Service and privilege escalation flaws.
An update that solves 14 vulnerabilities and has four fixes An update that solves 14 vulnerabilities and has four fixes An update that solves 14 vulnerabilities and has four fixes ...

Summary

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-5973: A infinite loop while doing control transfer in xhci_kick_epctx allowed privileged user inside the guest to crash the host process resulting in DoS (bsc#1025188) - CVE-2016-10155: The virtual hardware watchdog 'wdt_i6300esb' was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue allowing a privileged user to cause a DoS and/or potentially crash the Qemu process on the host (bsc#1024183) - CVE-2017-2620: In CIRRUS_BLTMODE_MEMSYSSRC mode the bitblit copy routine cirrus_bitblt_cputovideo failed to check the memory region, allowing for an out-of-bounds write that allows for privilege escalation (bsc#1024834) - CVE-2017-5856: The MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter emulation

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical privilege escalation DoS memory leak SUSE xen

References

#1000195 #1002496 #1013657 #1013668 #1014490

#1014507 #1015169 #1016340 #1022627 #1022871

#1023004 #1024183 #1024186 #1024307 #1024834

#1025188 #907805 #987002

Cross- CVE-2014-8106 CVE-2016-10155 CVE-2016-9101

CVE-2016-9776 CVE-2016-9907 CVE-2016-9911

CVE-2016-9921 CVE-2016-9922 CVE-2017-2615

CVE-2017-2620 CVE-2017-5579 CVE-2017-5856

CVE-2017-5898 CVE-2017-5973

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8106.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10155.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9101.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9776.html

Severity
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:0647-1
Rating: important

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical privilege escalation DoS memory leak SUSE xen

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