| Revision Date: | 2017-04-11 | Version: | 1 |
| Title: | Security update for xen (Important) |
| Description: |
This update for xen to version 4.7.2 fixes the following issues:
These security issues were fixed:
- CVE-2017-7228: Broken check in memory_exchange() permited PV guest breakout (bsc#1030442). - XSA-206: Unprivileged guests issuing writes to xenstore were able to stall progress of the control domain or driver domain, possibly leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) of the entire host (bsc#1030144). - CVE-2017-6505: The ohci_service_ed_list function in hw/usb/hcd-ohci.c allowed local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via vectors involving the number of link endpoint list descriptors (bsc#1028235).
These non-security issues were fixed:
- bsc#1015348: libvirtd didn't not start during boot - bsc#1014136: kdump couldn't dump a kernel on SLES12-SP2 with Xen hypervisor. - bsc#1026236: Fixed paravirtualized performance - bsc#1022555: Timeout in 'execution of /etc/xen/scripts/block add' - bsc#1029827: Forward port xenstored - bsc#1029128: Make xen to really produce xen.efi with gcc48
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| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Status: | | Reference(s): | 1014136
1015348
1022555
1026236
1027519
1028235
1029128
1029827
1030144
1030442
CVE-2017-6505
CVE-2017-7228
SUSE-SU-2017:0983-1
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| Platform(s): | SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2
| Product(s): | |
| Definition Synopsis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 is installed AND Package Information
xen-4.7.2_02-36.1 is installed
OR xen-libs-4.7.2_02-36.1 is installed
OR xen-libs-32bit-4.7.2_02-36.1 is installed
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