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SUSE: 2018:2410-2 Important: Xen Information Disclosure and Host Lockup

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Calendar Grey October 18, 2018
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE has released a vital security patch for xen that addresses critical security flaws. Discover further details regarding the updates and the procedures needed to implement them.
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 Server 12-SP2-BCL:

References

#1027519 #1091107 #1103276

Cross- CVE-2018-3646

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL

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-2018:2410-2
Rating: important

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