SUSE-SU-2018:4300-1

Source
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2018/suse-su-20184300-1/
Import Source
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/osv/SUSE-SU-2018:4300-1.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/SUSE-SU-2018:4300-1
Related
Published
2018-12-28T17:38:50Z
Modified
2018-12-28T17:38:50Z
Summary
Security update for xen
Details

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

Update to Xen 4.10.2 bug fix release (bsc#1027519).

Security vulnerabilities fixed:

  • CVE-2018-19961, CVE-2018-19962: Fixed an issue related to insufficient TLB flushing with AMD IOMMUs, which potentially allowed a guest to escalate its privileges, may cause a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host, or may be able to access data it is not supposed to access. (XSA-275) (bsc#1115040)
  • CVE-2018-19965: Fixed an issue related to the INVPCID instruction in case non-canonical addresses are accessed, which may allow a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host. (XSA-279) (bsc#1115045)
  • CVE-2018-19966: Fixed an issue related to a previous fix for XSA-240, which conflicted with shadow paging and allowed a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-280) (bsc#1115047)
  • CVE-2018-18883: Fixed an issue related to inproper restriction of nested VT-x, which allowed a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-278) (bsc#1114405)
  • CVE-2018-15468: Fixed incorrect MSR_DEBUGCTL handling, which allowed guests to enable Branch Trace Store and may cause a Denial of Service (DoS) of the entire host. (XSA-269) (bsc#1103276)
  • CVE-2018-15469: Fixed use of v2 grant tables on ARM, which were not properly implemented and may cause a Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-268) (bsc#1103275)
  • CVE-2018-15470: Fixed an issue in the logic in oxenstored for handling writes, which allowed a guest to write memory unbounded leading to system-wide Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-272) (bsc#1103279)
  • CVE-2018-3646: Mitigations for VMM aspects of L1 Terminal Fault (XSA-273) (bsc#1091107)

Other bugs fixed:

  • Fixed an issue related to a domU hang on SLE12-SP3 HV (bsc#1108940)
  • Fixed an issue with xpti=no-dom0 not working as expected (bsc#1105528)
  • Fixed a kernel oops related to fs/dcache.c called by dmaterialiseunique() (bsc#1094508)
References

Affected packages

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 / xen

Package

Name
xen
Purl
purl:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.10.2_04-3.9.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "xen-libs": "4.10.2_04-3.9.1",
            "xen-tools-domU": "4.10.2_04-3.9.1"
        }
    ]
}

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 / xen

Package

Name
xen
Purl
purl:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.10.2_04-3.9.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "xen-tools": "4.10.2_04-3.9.1",
            "xen-devel": "4.10.2_04-3.9.1",
            "xen": "4.10.2_04-3.9.1"
        }
    ]
}