SUSE: 2018:1699-2 Important: Xen Security Update and Fixes
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October 18, 2018
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available
Summary
This update for xen fixes several issues. This feature was added: - Added support for qemu monitor command 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). This non-security issue was fixed: - bsc#1086039 - Dom0 does not represent DomU cpu flags 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 Server 12-SP2-BCL: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2018-1142=1
References
#1027519 #1074562 #1086039 #1092631
Cross- CVE-2017-5715 CVE-2017-5753 CVE-2017-5754
CVE-2018-3639
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL
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/1086039
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1092631
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:1699-2
Rating: important
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