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[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2015:0613-1: important: Security update for Xen

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SUSE Security Update: Security update for Xen

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:0613-1

Rating: important

References: #861318 #882089 #895528 #901488 #903680 #904255

#906996 #910254 #910681 #912011 #918995 #918998

#919098 #919464 #919663

Cross-References: CVE-2014-3615 CVE-2014-9065 CVE-2014-9066

CVE-2015-0361 CVE-2015-2044 CVE-2015-2045

CVE-2015-2151 CVE-2015-2152

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12

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An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has 7 fixes is

now available.

 

Description:

 

 

The XEN hypervisor received updates to fix various security issues and

bugs.

 

The following security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2015-2151: XSA-123: A hypervisor memory corruption due to x86

emulator flaw.

- CVE-2015-2045: XSA-122: Information leak through version information

hypercall.

- CVE-2015-2044: XSA-121: Information leak via internal x86 system device

emulation.

- CVE-2015-2152: XSA-119: HVM qemu was unexpectedly enabling emulated VGA

graphics backends.

- CVE-2014-3615: Information leakage when guest sets high graphics

resolution.

- CVE-2015-0361: XSA-116: A xen crash due to use after free on hvm guest

teardown.

- CVE-2014-9065, CVE-2014-9066: XSA-114: xen: p2m lock starvation.

 

Also the following bugs were fixed:

- bnc#919098 - XEN blktap device intermittently fails to connect

- bnc#882089 - Windows 2012 R2 fails to boot up with greater than 60 vcpus

- bnc#903680 - Problems with detecting free loop devices on Xen guest

startup

- bnc#861318 - xentop reports "Found interface vif101.0 but domain 101

does not exist."

- Update seabios to rel-1.7.3.1 which is the correct version for Xen 4.4

- Enhancement to virsh/libvirtd "send-key" command The xen side small fix.

(FATE#317240)

- bnc#901488 - Intel ixgbe driver assigns rx/tx queues per core resulting

in irq problems on servers with a large amount of CPU cores

- bnc#910254 - SLES11 SP3 Xen VT-d igb NIC doesn't work

- Add domain_migrate_constraints_set API to Xend's http interface

(FATE#317239)

- Restore missing fixes from block-dmmd script

- bnc#904255 - XEN boot hangs in early boot on UEFI system

- bsc#912011 - high ping latency after upgrade to latest SLES11SP3 on xen

Dom0

- Fix missing banner by restoring the figlet program.

 

 

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 Software Development Kit 12:

 

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2015-147=1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12:

 

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-147=1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12:

 

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-147=1

 

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

 

 

Package List:

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 (x86_64):

 

xen-debugsource-4.4.1_10-9.1

xen-devel-4.4.1_10-9.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (x86_64):

 

xen-4.4.1_10-9.1

xen-debugsource-4.4.1_10-9.1

xen-doc-html-4.4.1_10-9.1

xen-kmp-default-4.4.1_10_k3.12.36_38-9.1

xen-kmp-default-debuginfo-4.4.1_10_k3.12.36_38-9.1

xen-libs-32bit-4.4.1_10-9.1

xen-libs-4.4.1_10-9.1

xen-libs-debuginfo-32bit-4.4.1_10-9.1

xen-libs-debuginfo-4.4.1_10-9.1

xen-tools-4.4.1_10-9.1

xen-tools-debuginfo-4.4.1_10-9.1

xen-tools-domU-4.4.1_10-9.1

xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.4.1_10-9.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 (x86_64):

 

xen-4.4.1_10-9.1

xen-debugsource-4.4.1_10-9.1

xen-kmp-default-4.4.1_10_k3.12.36_38-9.1

xen-kmp-default-debuginfo-4.4.1_10_k3.12.36_38-9.1

xen-libs-32bit-4.4.1_10-9.1

xen-libs-4.4.1_10-9.1

xen-libs-debuginfo-32bit-4.4.1_10-9.1

xen-libs-debuginfo-4.4.1_10-9.1

 

 

References:

 

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3615.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9065.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9066.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-0361.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2044.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2045.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2151.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2152.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/861318

https://bugzilla.suse.com/882089

https://bugzilla.suse.com/895528

https://bugzilla.suse.com/901488

https://bugzilla.suse.com/903680

https://bugzilla.suse.com/904255

https://bugzilla.suse.com/906996

https://bugzilla.suse.com/910254

https://bugzilla.suse.com/910681

https://bugzilla.suse.com/912011

https://bugzilla.suse.com/918995

https://bugzilla.suse.com/918998

https://bugzilla.suse.com/919098

https://bugzilla.suse.com/919464

https://bugzilla.suse.com/919663

 

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