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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 2017-2541-1 Important: Xen Security Update

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Calendar Grey September 21, 2017
Dist Suse Esm H88
Patch release addresses 10 critical vulnerabilities in Xen, enhancing security and performance. Detailed guidance provided for swift installation of these essential updates.
An update that solves 10 vulnerabilities and has four fixes An update that solves 10 vulnerabilities and has four fixes An update that solves 10 vulnerabilities and has four fixes ...

Summary

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-12135: Unbounded recursion in grant table code allowed a malicious guest to crash the host or potentially escalate privileges/leak information (XSA-226, bsc#1051787). - CVE-2017-12137: Incorrectly-aligned updates to pagetables allowed for privilege escalation (XSA-227, bsc#1051788). - CVE-2017-11334: The address_space_write_continue function in exec.c allowed local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access and guest instance crash) by leveraging use of qemu_map_ram_ptr to access guest ram block area (bsc#1048920). - CVE-2017-11434: The dhcp_decode function in slirp/bootp.c allowed local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted DHCP

References

#1002573 #1027519 #1032598 #1037413 #1046637

#1047675 #1048920 #1049578 #1051787 #1051788

#1052686 #1056278 #1056281 #1056282

Cross- CVE-2017-10664 CVE-2017-10806 CVE-2017-11334

CVE-2017-11434 CVE-2017-12135 CVE-2017-12137

CVE-2017-12855 CVE-2017-14316 CVE-2017-14317

CVE-2017-14319

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10664.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10806.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11334.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11434.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12135.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12137.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:2541-1
Rating: important

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