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SUSE: 2018:2401-1 Important: Xen Information Disclosure and DoS

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Calendar Grey August 17, 2018
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SUSE Security Patch for xen addresses a significant data exposure vulnerability classified as major. Apply updates for complete safety.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has two fixes is now available

Summary

This update for xen fixes the following security issues: - CVE-2018-3646: Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and address translations may have allowed unauthorized disclosure of information residing in the L1 data cache to an attacker with local user access with guest OS privilege via a terminal page fault and a side-channel analysis (bsc#1091107, bsc#1027519). - Incorrect MSR_DEBUGCTL handling let guests enable BTS allowing a malicious or buggy guest administrator can lock up the entire host (bsc#1103276) 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 12-SP3:

References

#1027519 #1091107 #1103276

Cross- CVE-2018-3646

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3

SUSE CaaS Platform ALL

SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3646.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1027519

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1091107

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1103276

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:2401-1
Rating: important

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