SUSE-SU-2017:2319-1
Vulnerability Summary
Timeline
Description
Security update for xen This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-12135: Unbounded recursion in grant table code allowed a malicious guest to crash the host or potentially escalate privileges/leak information (XSA-226, bsc#1051787). - CVE-2017-12137: Incorrectly-aligned updates to pagetables allowed for privilege escalation (XSA-227, bsc#1051788). - CVE-2017-11434: The dhcp_decode function in slirp/bootp.c allowed local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted DHCP options string (bsc#1049578). - CVE-2017-10664: qemu-nbd did not ignore SIGPIPE, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by disconnecting during a server-to-client reply attempt (bsc#1046637). - CVE-2017-11334: The address_space_write_continue function in exec.c allowed local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access and guest instance crash) by leveraging use of qemu_map_ram_ptr to access guest ram block area (bsc#1048920). - CVE-2017-10806: Stack-based buffer overflow in hw/usb/redirect.c allowed local guest OS users to cause a denial of service via vectors related to logging debug messages (bsc#1047675). - bsc#1052686: Premature clearing of GTF_writing / GTF_reading lead to potentially leaking sensitive information (XSA-230). This non-security issue was fixed: - bsc#1002573: Optimized LVM functions in block-dmmd block-dmmd
Affected Systems
- suse•xen&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS
< 4.5.5_14-22.25.1
- suse•xen&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
< 4.5.5_14-22.25.1
- suse•xen&distro=SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6
< 4.5.5_14-22.25.1
References (15)
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2017/suse-su-20172319-1/
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1002573
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1046637
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1047675
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1048920
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1049578
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1051787
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1051788
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1052686
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10664
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10806
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11334
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11434
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12135
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12137