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SUSE: 2017:0983-1 Important: Xen Critical DoS Security Issues

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Calendar Grey April 11, 2017
Dist Suse Esm H88
Vital SUSE patch for Xen resolves significant vulnerabilities and boosts system reliability. Update your setup now.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 8 fixes An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 8 fixes An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has 8 fixes is now...

Summary

This update for xen to version 4.7.2 fixes the following issues: These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-7228: Broken check in memory_exchange() permited PV guest breakout (bsc#1030442). - XSA-206: Unprivileged guests issuing writes to xenstore were able to stall progress of the control domain or driver domain, possibly leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) of the entire host (bsc#1030144). - CVE-2017-6505: The ohci_service_ed_list function in hw/usb/hcd-ohci.c allowed local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via vectors involving the number of link endpoint list descriptors (bsc#1028235). These non-security issues were fixed: - bsc#1015348: libvirtd didn't not start during boot - bsc#1014136: kdump couldn't dump a kernel on SLES12-SP2 with Xen hypervisor.

References

#1014136 #1015348 #1022555 #1026236 #1027519

#1028235 #1029128 #1029827 #1030144 #1030442

Cross- CVE-2017-6505 CVE-2017-7228

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-6505.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7228.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1014136

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1015348

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1022555

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1026236

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1027519

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1028235

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1029128

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1029827

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1030144

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1030442

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:0983-1
Rating: important

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