[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:1162-1: important: Security update for Xen

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SUSE Security Update: Security update for Xen

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:1162-1

Rating: important

References: #776995 #777084 #777090 #777091

Cross-References: CVE-2012-3494 CVE-2012-3496 CVE-2012-3515

 

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS

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An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has one

errata is now available.

 

Description:

 

 

XEN was updated to fix multiple bugs and security issues.

 

The following security issues have been fixed:

 

* CVE-2012-3494: xen: hypercall set_debugreg

vulnerability (XSA-12)

* CVE-2012-3496: xen: XENMEM_populate_physmap DoS

vulnerability (XSA-14)

* CVE-2012-3515: xen: Qemu VT100 emulation

vulnerability (XSA-17)

 

Also the following bugs have been fixed:

 

* pvscsi support of attaching Luns - bnc#776995

 

Security Issue references:

 

* CVE-2012-3496

 

* CVE-2012-3494

 

* CVE-2012-3515

 

 

Indications:

 

Everyone using XEN should update.

 

Patch Instructions:

 

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS:

 

zypper in -t patch slessp1-xen-201209-6746

 

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

 

 

Package List:

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS (i586 x86_64):

 

xen-4.0.3_21548_10-0.5.1

xen-doc-html-4.0.3_21548_10-0.5.1

xen-doc-pdf-4.0.3_21548_10-0.5.1

xen-kmp-default-4.0.3_21548_10_2.6.32.59_0.7-0.5.1

xen-kmp-trace-4.0.3_21548_10_2.6.32.59_0.7-0.5.1

xen-libs-4.0.3_21548_10-0.5.1

xen-tools-4.0.3_21548_10-0.5.1

xen-tools-domU-4.0.3_21548_10-0.5.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS (i586):

 

xen-kmp-pae-4.0.3_21548_10_2.6.32.59_0.7-0.5.1

 

 

References:

 

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3494.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3496.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3515.html

https://bugzilla.novell.com/776995

https://bugzilla.novell.com/777084

https://bugzilla.novell.com/777090

https://bugzilla.novell.com/777091

http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=60ffb0200ab44cd2c5b21cf2c325f4a5

 

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