Security update for Xen

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:0613-1
Rating: important
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12

An update that solves eight vulnerabilities and has seven security fixes can now be installed.

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.

Special Instructions and Notes:

  • Please reboot the system after installing this update.

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:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-147=1
  • 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 Server for SAP Applications 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-147=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 (x86_64)
    • xen-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-kmp-default-4.4.1_10_k3.12.36_38-9.1
    • xen-libs-debuginfo-32bit-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-libs-debuginfo-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-libs-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-kmp-default-debuginfo-4.4.1_10_k3.12.36_38-9.1
    • xen-debugsource-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-libs-32bit-4.4.1_10-9.1
  • 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-doc-html-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-tools-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-tools-domU-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-kmp-default-4.4.1_10_k3.12.36_38-9.1
    • xen-libs-debuginfo-32bit-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-libs-debuginfo-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-libs-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-tools-debuginfo-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-kmp-default-debuginfo-4.4.1_10_k3.12.36_38-9.1
    • xen-debugsource-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-libs-32bit-4.4.1_10-9.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 (x86_64)
    • xen-doc-html-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-tools-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-tools-domU-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-kmp-default-4.4.1_10_k3.12.36_38-9.1
    • xen-libs-debuginfo-32bit-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-libs-debuginfo-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-libs-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-tools-debuginfo-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-kmp-default-debuginfo-4.4.1_10_k3.12.36_38-9.1
    • xen-debugsource-4.4.1_10-9.1
    • xen-libs-32bit-4.4.1_10-9.1

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