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SUSE: 2019:2960-1 Important: Xen Denial of Service and Escalation

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Calendar Grey November 12, 2019
Dist Suse Esm H88
This Red Hat security patch for qemu resolves significant threats affecting system reliability and performance.
An update that fixes 6 vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for xen fixes the following issues: - CVE-2018-12207: Untrusted virtual machines on Intel CPUs could exploit a race condition in the Instruction Fetch Unit of the Intel CPU to cause a Machine Exception during Page Size Change, causing the CPU core to be non-functional. (bsc#1155945) - CVE-2019-11135: Aborting an asynchronous TSX operation on Intel CPUs with Transactional Memory support could be used to facilitate sidechannel information leaks out of microarchitectural buffers, similar to the previously described "Microarchitectural Data Sampling" attack. (bsc#1152497). - CVE-2019-18425: 32-bit PV guest user mode could elevate its privileges to that of the guest kernel. (bsc#1154456). - CVE-2019-18421: A malicious PV guest administrator may have been able to

References

#1152497 #1154448 #1154456 #1154458 #1154461

#1155945

Cross- CVE-2018-12207 CVE-2019-11135 CVE-2019-18420

CVE-2019-18421 CVE-2019-18424 CVE-2019-18425

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12207.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11135.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-18420.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-18421.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-18424.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-18425.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1152497

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1154448

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1154456

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1154458

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:2960-1
Rating: important

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