This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed: - A malicious 64-bit PV guest may be able to access all of system memory, allowing for all of privilege escalation, host crashes, and information leaks by placing a IRET hypercall in the middle of a multicall batch (XSA-213, bsc#1034843) - A malicious pair of guests may be able to access all of system memory, allowing for all of privilege escalation, host crashes, and information leaks because of a missing check when transfering pages via GNTTABOP_transfer (XSA-214, bsc#1034844). - CVE-2017-7718: hw/display/cirrus_vga_rop.h allowed local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to copying VGA data via the
#1022703 #1028655 #1029827 #1030144 #1034843
#1034844 #1034994 #1036146
Cross- CVE-2016-9603 CVE-2017-7718
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-2016-9603.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7718.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1022703
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1028655
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1029827
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1030144
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1034843
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1034844
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1034994
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1036146
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