Security update for xen

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:4300-1
Rating: important
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2018-15468 ( SUSE ): 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2018-15468 ( NVD ): 6.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2018-15469 ( NVD ): 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2018-15470 ( NVD ): 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2018-18883 ( SUSE ): 5.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
  • CVE-2018-18883 ( NVD ): 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2018-19961 ( SUSE ): 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2018-19961 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2018-19962 ( SUSE ): 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2018-19962 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2018-19965 ( NVD ): 5.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE-2018-19966 ( SUSE ): 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
  • CVE-2018-19966 ( NVD ): 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2018-3646 ( SUSE ): 5.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE-2018-3646 ( NVD ): 5.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15
  • Server Applications Module 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15

An update that solves nine vulnerabilities and has four security fixes can now be installed.

Description:

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 d_materialise_unique() (bsc#1094508)

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
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2018-3063=1
  • Server Applications Module 15
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-2018-3063=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15 (x86_64)
    • xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.10.2_04-3.9.1
    • xen-tools-domU-4.10.2_04-3.9.1
    • xen-debugsource-4.10.2_04-3.9.1
    • xen-libs-4.10.2_04-3.9.1
    • xen-libs-debuginfo-4.10.2_04-3.9.1
  • Server Applications Module 15 (x86_64)
    • xen-tools-4.10.2_04-3.9.1
    • xen-4.10.2_04-3.9.1
    • xen-debugsource-4.10.2_04-3.9.1
    • xen-devel-4.10.2_04-3.9.1
    • xen-tools-debuginfo-4.10.2_04-3.9.1

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