Recommended update for xen

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2019:2715-1
Rating: important
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Cross-References:
CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2018-12126 ( SUSE ): 3.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2018-12126 ( NVD ): 5.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2018-12127 ( SUSE ): 3.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2018-12127 ( NVD ): 5.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2018-12130 ( SUSE ): 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2018-12130 ( NVD ): 5.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2019-11091 ( SUSE ): 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2019-11091 ( NVD ): 5.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2019-17349 ( SUSE ): 5.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2019-17349 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2019-17350 ( SUSE ): 5.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2019-17350 ( NVD ): 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15-SP1
  • Server Applications Module 15-SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 Business Critical Linux 15-SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.0

An update that solves six vulnerabilities and has six fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for xen to version 4.12.1 fixes the following issues:

  • Fixed an issue which made Xen crash on AMD ROME based machines (bsc#1135799).
  • Xenpvnetboot is now ported correctly to Python 3 (bsc#1138563).
  • Added code to change LIBXL_HOTPLUG_TIMEOUT at runtime (bsc#1120095). The included README has details about the impact of this change
  • Fixed an issue where the speculative mitigation facilities reported wrong status (bsc#1143563).
  • Fixed an issue where Xen could not connect socket to /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock (bsc#1137471).
  • Fixed an HPS bug which did not allow to install Windows Server 2016 with 2 CPUs setting or above (bsc#1137717).
  • Fixed a segmentation fault in Libvrtd during live migration to a VM (bsc#1145774).
  • LTO is now disabled (bsc#1133296).
  • Fixed an issue where Xen could not pre-allocate 1 shadow page (bsc#1145240).

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP1
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP1-2019-2715=1
  • Server Applications Module 15-SP1
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP1-2019-2715=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15-SP1 (x86_64)
    • xen-tools-domU-4.12.1_02-3.3.1
    • xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.12.1_02-3.3.1
    • xen-libs-4.12.1_02-3.3.1
    • xen-debugsource-4.12.1_02-3.3.1
    • xen-libs-debuginfo-4.12.1_02-3.3.1
  • Server Applications Module 15-SP1 (x86_64)
    • xen-4.12.1_02-3.3.1
    • xen-tools-4.12.1_02-3.3.1
    • xen-tools-debuginfo-4.12.1_02-3.3.1
    • xen-devel-4.12.1_02-3.3.1
    • xen-debugsource-4.12.1_02-3.3.1

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