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SUSE: 2018:1177-1 Important: Multiple Issues Fixed in Xen

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Calendar Grey May 9, 2018
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Patch: Critical update for apache addresses various vulnerabilities and ratings, bolstering system safety.
An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has 6 fixes is now available.

Summary

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 (XSA-260, bsc#1090820) - Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially privilege escalation/information leaks (XSA-261, bsc#1090822) - Prevent unbounded loop, induced by qemu allowing an attacker to permanently keep a physical CPU core busy (XSA-262, bsc#1090823) - CVE-2018-10472: x86 HVM guest OS users (in certain configurations) were able to read arbitrary dom0 files via QMP live insertion of a CDROM, in conjunction with specifying the target file as the backing file of a snapshot (bsc#1089152). - CVE-2018-10471: x86 PV guest OS users were able to cause a denial of

References

#1027519 #1057493 #1072834 #1083292 #1086107

#1089152 #1089635 #1090820 #1090822 #1090823

Cross- CVE-2018-10471 CVE-2018-10472 CVE-2018-7550

CVE-2018-8897

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10471.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10472.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7550.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8897.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1027519

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1057493

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1072834

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1083292

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1086107

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1089152

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1089635

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1090820

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1090822

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:1177-1
Rating: important

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