openSUSE Security Update: Security update for xen
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:0983-1
Rating: important
References: #927967 #929339
Cross-References: CVE-2015-3340 CVE-2015-3456
Affected Products:
openSUSE 13.1
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An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Description:

The XEN hypervisor was updated to fix two security issues:

– Fixed a buffer overflow in the floppy drive emulation, which could be
used to denial of service attacks or potential code execution against
the host. (CVE-2015-3456)
– Xen did not initialize certain fields, which allowed certain remote
service domains to obtain sensitive information from memory via a (1)
XEN_DOMCTL_gettscinfo or (2) XEN_SYSCTL_getdomaininfolist request.
(CVE-2015-3340)

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

– openSUSE 13.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-391=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use “zypper patch”.

Package List:

– openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

xen-debugsource-4.3.4_04-44.1
xen-devel-4.3.4_04-44.1
xen-kmp-default-4.3.4_04_k3.11.10_29-44.1
xen-kmp-default-debuginfo-4.3.4_04_k3.11.10_29-44.1
xen-kmp-desktop-4.3.4_04_k3.11.10_29-44.1
xen-kmp-desktop-debuginfo-4.3.4_04_k3.11.10_29-44.1
xen-libs-4.3.4_04-44.1
xen-libs-debuginfo-4.3.4_04-44.1
xen-tools-domU-4.3.4_04-44.1
xen-tools-domU-debuginfo-4.3.4_04-44.1

– openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64):

xen-4.3.4_04-44.1
xen-doc-html-4.3.4_04-44.1
xen-libs-32bit-4.3.4_04-44.1
xen-libs-debuginfo-32bit-4.3.4_04-44.1
xen-tools-4.3.4_04-44.1
xen-tools-debuginfo-4.3.4_04-44.1
xen-xend-tools-4.3.4_04-44.1
xen-xend-tools-debuginfo-4.3.4_04-44.1

– openSUSE 13.1 (i586):

xen-kmp-pae-4.3.4_04_k3.11.10_29-44.1
xen-kmp-pae-debuginfo-4.3.4_04_k3.11.10_29-44.1

References:

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3340.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3456.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/927967
https://bugzilla.suse.com/929339

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