Security update for xen
This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed: - A malicious 64-bit PV guest may be able to access all of system memory, allowing for all of privilege escalation, host crashes, and information leaks by placing a IRET hypercall in the middle of a multicall batch (XSA-213, bsc#1034843) - A malicious pair of guests may be able to access all of system memory, allowing for all of privilege escalation, host crashes, and information leaks because of a missing check when transfering pages via GNTTABOP_transfer (XSA-214, bsc#1034844). - CVE-2017-7718: hw/display/cirrus_vga_rop.h allowed local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to copying VGA data via the cirrus_bitblt_rop_fwd_transp_ and cirrus_bitblt_rop_fwd_ functions (bsc#1034994). - CVE-2016-9603: A privileged user within the guest VM could have caused a heap overflow in the device model process, potentially escalating their privileges to that of the device model process (bsc#1028655) These non-security issues were fixed: - bsc#1029827: Additional xenstore patch - bsc#1036146: Xen VM dumped core to wrong path - bsc#1022703: Prevent Xen HVM guest with OVMF to hang with unattached CDRom
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed: - A malicious 64-bit PV guest may be able to access all of system memory, allowing for all of privilege escalation, host crashes, and information leaks by placing a IRET hypercall in the middle of a multicall batch (XSA-213, bsc#1034843) - A malicious pair of guests may be able to access all of system memory, allowing for all of privilege escalation, host crashes, and information leaks because of a missing check when transfering pages via GNTTABOP_transfer (XSA-214, bsc#1034844). - CVE-2017-7718: hw/display/cirrus_vga_rop.h allowed local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to copying VGA data via the cirrus_bitblt_rop_fwd_transp_ and cirrus_bitblt_rop_fwd_ functions (bsc#1034994). - CVE-2016-9603: A privileged user within the guest VM could have caused a heap overflow in the device model process, potentially escalating their privileges to that of the device model process (bsc#1028655) These non-security issues were fixed: - bsc#1029827: Additional xenstore patch - bsc#1036146: Xen VM dumped core to wrong path - bsc#1022703: Prevent Xen HVM guest with OVMF to hang with unattached CDRom
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1022703
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1028655
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1029827
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1030144
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1034843
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1034844
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1034994
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1036146
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9603
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7718
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2017/suse-su-20171143-1/