This update for xen fixes the following issues: - CVE-2018-17963: qemu_deliver_packet_iov accepted packet sizes greater than INT_MAX, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact. (bsc#1111014) - CVE-2018-15468: The DEBUGCTL MSR contains several debugging features, some of which virtualise cleanly, but some do not. In particular, Branch Trace Store is not virtualised by the processor, and software has to be careful to configure it suitably not to lock up the core. As a result, it must only be available to fully trusted guests. Unfortunately, in the case that vPMU is disabled, all value checking was skipped, allowing the guest to choose any MSR_DEBUGCTL setting it likes. A malicious or buggy guest administrator (on Intel x86 HVM or PVH) could have locked up the
#1094508 #1103276 #1111014
Cross- CVE-2018-15468 CVE-2018-17963
Affected Products:
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL
SUSE Enterprise Storage 4
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-15468.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17963.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1094508
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1103276
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1111014
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