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SUSE: 2018:1603-1 Critical Update for Xen Vulnerability Mitigations

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Calendar Grey June 8, 2018
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Red Hat Security Patch tackles significant security issues in the kernel, providing resolutions for potential user access vulnerabilities.
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Prevent attackers with local user access from extracting information via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Store Bypass (SSB), Variant 4 (bsc#1092631). - CVE-2017-5753,CVE-2017-5715,CVE-2017-5754: Improved Spectre v2 mitigations (bsc#1074562). bsc#1027519 Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch sdksp4-xen-13647=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch slessp4-xen-13647=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:

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Topics Covered

security advisory important attack mitigation xen side-channel SUSE Linux Enterprise

References

#1027519 #1074562 #1092631

Cross- CVE-2017-5715 CVE-2017-5753 CVE-2017-5754

CVE-2018-3639

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5715.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5753.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5754.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3639.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1027519

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1074562

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1092631

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:1603-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory important attack mitigation xen side-channel SUSE Linux Enterprise

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