SUSE-SU-2017:2815-1

Advisory lineage Upstream: 8 Downstream: 0
Published: 20 Oct 2017, 14:57
Last modified:04 Feb 2026, 02:58

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
minimal
0/100
CVSS Score
No data
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

20 Oct 2017, 14:57
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
04 Feb 2026, 02:58
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Security update for xen This update for xen fixes several issues: These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-5526: The ES1370 audio device emulation support was vulnerable to a memory leakage issue allowing a privileged user inside the guest to cause a DoS and/or potentially crash the Qemu process on the host (bsc#1059777) - CVE-2017-15593: Missing cleanup in the page type system allowed a malicious or buggy PV guest to cause DoS (XSA-242 bsc#1061084) - CVE-2017-15592: A problem in the shadow pagetable code allowed a malicious or buggy HVM guest to cause DoS or cause hypervisor memory corruption potentially allowing the guest to escalate its privilege (XSA-243 bsc#1061086) - CVE-2017-15594: Problematic handling of the selector fields in the Interrupt Descriptor Table (IDT) allowed a malicious or buggy x86 PV guest to escalate its privileges or cause DoS (XSA-244 bsc#1061087) - CVE-2017-15589: Intercepted I/O write operations with less than a full machine word's worth of data were not properly handled, which allowed a malicious unprivileged x86 HVM guest to obtain sensitive information from the host or other guests (XSA-239 bsc#1061080) - CVE-2017-15595: In certain configurations of linear page tables a stack overflow might have occured that allowed a malicious or buggy PV guest to cause DoS and potentially privilege escalation and information leaks (XSA-240 bsc#1061081) - CVE-2017-15588: Under certain conditions x86 PV guests could have caused the hypervisor to miss a necessary TLB flush for a page. This allowed a malicious x86 PV guest to access all of system memory, allowing for privilege escalation, DoS, and information leaks (XSA-241 bsc#1061082) - CVE-2017-15590: Multiple issues existed with the setup of PCI MSI interrupts that allowed a malicious or buggy guest to cause DoS and potentially privilege escalation and information leaks (XSA-237 bsc#1061076)

Affected Systems

  • suse•xen&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4

    < 4.4.4_24-61.12.1

  • suse•xen&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4

    < 4.4.4_24-61.12.1

  • suse•xen&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4

    < 4.4.4_24-61.12.1

References (18)