Security update for Xen
SUSE Security Update: Security update for Xen
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.
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 |
Affected Products: |
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