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.
#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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