SUSE-SU-2018:1699-2

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Source
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2018/suse-su-20181699-2/
Import Source
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/osv/SUSE-SU-2018:1699-2.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/SUSE-SU-2018:1699-2
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Published
2018-10-18T12:46:29Z
Modified
2025-05-08T17:03:25.389089Z
Summary
Security update for xen
Details

This update for xen fixes several issues.

This feature was added:

  • Added support for qemu monitor command

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2018-3639: Prevent attackers with local user access from extracting information via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Store Bypass (SSB), Variant 4 (bsc#1092631).
  • CVE-2017-5753,CVE-2017-5715,CVE-2017-5754: Improved Spectre v2 mitigations (bsc#1074562).

This non-security issue was fixed:

  • bsc#1086039 - Dom0 does not represent DomU cpu flags
References

Affected packages

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL / xen

Package

Name
xen
Purl
pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCL

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.7.5_04-43.33.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "xen-doc-html": "4.7.5_04-43.33.1",
            "xen-libs": "4.7.5_04-43.33.1",
            "xen": "4.7.5_04-43.33.1",
            "xen-tools": "4.7.5_04-43.33.1",
            "xen-libs-32bit": "4.7.5_04-43.33.1",
            "xen-tools-domU": "4.7.5_04-43.33.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/osv/SUSE-SU-2018:1699-2.json"