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SUSE 2018:2482-1 Important: Xen Information Disclosure Risk

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Calendar Grey August 22, 2018
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE has released a security update for xen that addresses one critical vulnerability along with four additional patches. Read more for details.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has four fixes is now available

Summary

This update for xen fixes the following issues: This security issue was fixed: - 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). These non-security issues were fixed: - bsc#1102116: SSBD is not virtualized for guests - bsc#1092631: Preserve the xl dmesg output after boot for determining what speculative mitigations have been detected by the hypervisor. - bsc#1101684: Make xen able to disable the visibility of the new CPU flags. Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

References

#1027519 #1091107 #1092631 #1101684 #1102116

Cross- CVE-2018-3646

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-2018-3646.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1027519

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1091107

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1092631

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1101684

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1102116

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:2482-1
Rating: important

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