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SUSE-SU-2018:0909-1 Not scored

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues: Update to Xen 4.7.5 bug fix only release (bsc#1027519) Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-7540: Fixed DoS via non-preemptable L3/L4 pagetable freeing (XSA-252) (bsc#1080635) - CVE-2018-7541: A grant table v2 -> v1 transition may crash Xen (XSA-255) (bsc#1080662) - CVE-2017-5753,CVE-2017-5715,CVE-2017-5754 Fixed information leaks via side effects of speculative execution (XSA-254). Includes Spectre v2 mitigation. (bsc#1074562) - Preserve xen-syms from xen-dbg.gz to allow processing vmcores with crash(1) (bsc#1087251) - Xen HVM: Fixed unchecked MSR access error (bsc#1072834) - Add script, udev rule and systemd service to watch for vcpu online/offline events in a HVM domU They are triggered via xl vcpu-set domU N (fate#324965) - Make sure tools and tools-domU require libs from the very same build

Exploit probability Not scored
Published April 10, 2018
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2 xen

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

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Open Source Vulnerabilities SUSE-SU-2018:0909-1

This update for xen fixes the following issues: Update to Xen 4.7.5 bug fix only release (bsc#1027519) Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-7540: Fixed DoS via non-preemptable L3/L4 pagetable freeing (XSA-252) (bsc#1080635) - CVE-2018-7541: A grant table v2 -> v1 transition may crash Xen (XSA-255) (bsc#1080662) - CVE-2017-5753,CVE-2017-5715,CVE-2017-5754 Fixed information leaks via side effects of speculative execution (XSA-254). Includes Spectre v2 mitigation. (bsc#1074562) - Preserve xen-syms from xen-dbg.gz to allow processing vmcores with crash(1) (bsc#1087251) - Xen HVM: Fixed unchecked MSR access error (bsc#1072834) - Add script, udev rule and systemd service to watch for vcpu online/offline events in a HVM domU They are triggered via xl vcpu-set domU N (fate#324965) - Make sure tools and tools-domU require libs from the very same build

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05 / REFERENCES

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