[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2017:1826-1: important: Security update for xen

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openSUSE Security Update: Security update for xen

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2017:1826-1

Rating: important

References: #1027519 #1035642 #1037243 #1042160 #1042882

#1042893 #1042915 #1042923 #1042924 #1042931

#1042938

Cross-References: CVE-2017-10912 CVE-2017-10913 CVE-2017-10914

CVE-2017-10915 CVE-2017-10917 CVE-2017-10918

CVE-2017-10920 CVE-2017-10921 CVE-2017-10922

CVE-2017-8309 CVE-2017-9330

Affected Products:

openSUSE Leap 42.2

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An update that fixes 11 vulnerabilities is now available.

 

Description:

 

This update for xen fixes several issues.

 

These security issues were fixed:

 

- CVE-2017-10912: Page transfer might have allowed PV guest to elevate

privilege (XSA-217, bsc#1042882)

- CVE-2017-10913 CVE-2017-10914: Races in the grant table unmap code

allowed for informations leaks and potentially privilege escalation

(XSA-218, bsc#1042893)

- CVE-2017-10915: Insufficient reference counts during shadow emulation

allowed a malicious pair of guest to elevate their privileges to the

privileges that XEN runs under (XSA-219, bsc#1042915)

- CVE-2017-10917: Missing NULL pointer check in event channel poll allows

guests to DoS the host (XSA-221, bsc#1042924)

- CVE-2017-10918: Stale P2M mappings due to insufficient error checking

allowed malicious guest to leak information or elevate privileges

(XSA-222, bsc#1042931)

- CVE-2017-10920, CVE-2017-10921, CVE-2017-10922: Grant table operations

mishandled reference counts allowing malicious guests to escape

(XSA-224, bsc#1042938)

- CVE-2017-9330: USB OHCI Emulation in qemu allowed local guest OS users

to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by leveraging an incorrect

return value (bsc#1042160)

- CVE-2017-8309: Memory leak in the audio/audio.c allowed remote attackers

to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by repeatedly starting

and stopping audio capture (bsc#1037243)

- PKRU and BND* leakage between vCPU-s might have leaked information to

other guests (XSA-220, bsc#1042923)

 

These non-security issues were fixed:

 

- bsc#1027519: Included various upstream patches

- bsc#1035642: Ensure that rpmbuild works

 

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

 

 

Patch Instructions:

 

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

 

- openSUSE Leap 42.2:

 

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-799=1

 

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

 

 

Package List:

 

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):

 

xen-debugsource-4.7.2_06-11.9.1

xen-devel-4.7.2_06-11.9.1

xen-libs-4.7.2_06-11.9.1

xen-libs-debuginfo-4.7.2_06-11.9.1

xen-tools-domU-4.7.2_06-11.9.1

xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.7.2_06-11.9.1

 

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (x86_64):

 

xen-4.7.2_06-11.9.1

xen-doc-html-4.7.2_06-11.9.1

xen-libs-32bit-4.7.2_06-11.9.1

xen-libs-debuginfo-32bit-4.7.2_06-11.9.1

xen-tools-4.7.2_06-11.9.1

xen-tools-debuginfo-4.7.2_06-11.9.1

 

 

References:

 

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10912.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10913.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10914.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10915.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10917.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10918.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10920.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10921.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10922.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8309.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9330.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1027519

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1035642

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1037243

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1042160

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1042882

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1042893

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1042915

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1042923

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1042924

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1042931

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1042938

 

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