SUSE: 2018:1981-1 Important: Xen Critical Issues and Fixes
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July 17, 2018
An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has four fixes is now available
Summary
This update for xen fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-3665: Fix Lazy FP Save/Restore issue (XSA-267) (bsc#1095242). - CVE-2018-12891: Fix possible Denial of Service (DoS) via certain PV MMU operations that affect the entire host (XSA-264) (bsc#1097521). - CVE-2018-12892: Fix libxl to honour the readonly flag on HVM emulated SCSI disks (XSA-266) (bsc#1097523). - CVE-2018-12893: Fix crash/Denial of Service (DoS) via safety check (XSA-265) (bsc#1097522). Bug fixes: - bsc#1027519: Add upstream patches from January. - bsc#1098403: Fix regression introduced by changes for bsc#1079730. A PV domU without qcow2 and/or vfb has no qemu attached. Ignore QMP errors for PV domUs to handle PV domUs with and without an attached qemu-xen. - bsc#1087289: Fix xen scheduler crash. Patch Instructions:
Topics Covered
References
#1027519 #1079730 #1087289 #1095242 #1097521
#1097522 #1097523 #1098403
Cross- CVE-2018-12891 CVE-2018-12892 CVE-2018-12893
CVE-2018-3665
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12891.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12892.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12893.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3665.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1027519
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1079730
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1087289
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1095242
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1097521
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1097522
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1097523
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:1981-1
Rating: important
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