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SUSE: 2019:2962-1 Important: Xen Security Update with Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey November 12, 2019
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Patch for xen: Resolves 6 vulnerabilities, addressing both privilege escalation and denial of service concerns.
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-2019-18424: An untrusted domain with access to a physical device can DMA into host memory, leading to privilege escalation. (bsc#1154461). - 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 Software Development Kit 12-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4

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

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2019:2962-1
Rating: important

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