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
#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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