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SUSE-SU-2018:1456-1 Not scored

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre V4 – Speculative Store Bypass aka 'Memory Disambiguation' (bsc#1092631) This feature can be controlled by the 'ssbd=on/off' commandline flag for the XEN hypervisor. - CVE-2018-10982: x86 vHPET interrupt injection errors (XSA-261 bsc#1090822) - CVE-2018-10981: qemu may drive Xen into unbounded loop (XSA-262 bsc#1090823) Other bugfixes: - Upstream patches from Jan (bsc#1027519) - additional fixes related to Page Table Isolation (XPTI). (bsc#1074562 XSA-254) - qemu-system-i386 cannot handle more than 4 HW NICs (bsc#1090296)

Exploit probability Not scored
Published May 29, 2018
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3 xen

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities SUSE-SU-2018:1456-1

This update for xen fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre V4 – Speculative Store Bypass aka 'Memory Disambiguation' (bsc#1092631) This feature can be controlled by the 'ssbd=on/off' commandline flag for the XEN hypervisor. - CVE-2018-10982: x86 vHPET interrupt injection errors (XSA-261 bsc#1090822) - CVE-2018-10981: qemu may drive Xen into unbounded loop (XSA-262 bsc#1090823) Other bugfixes: - Upstream patches from Jan (bsc#1027519) - additional fixes related to Page Table Isolation (XPTI). (bsc#1074562 XSA-254) - qemu-system-i386 cannot handle more than 4 HW NICs (bsc#1090296)

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05 / REFERENCES

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