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SUSE-SU-2019:0020-1 Not scored

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues: Security vulnerabilities fixed: - CVE-2018-19961, CVE-2018-19962: Fixed an issue related to insufficient TLB flushing with AMD IOMMUs, which potentially allowed a guest to escalate its privileges, may cause a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host, or may be able to access data it is not supposed to access. (XSA-275) (bsc#1115040) - CVE-2018-19965: Fixed an issue related to the INVPCID instruction in case non-canonical addresses are accessed, which may allow a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host. (XSA-279) (bsc#1115045) - CVE-2018-19966: Fixed an issue related to a previous fix for XSA-240, which conflicted with shadow paging and allowed a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-280) (bsc#1115047) - CVE-2018-19665: Fixed an integer overflow resulting in memory corruption in various Bluetooth functions, allowing this to crash qemu process resulting in Denial of Service (DoS). (bsc#1117756). - CVE-2018-18849: Fixed an out of bounds memory access in the LSI53C895A SCSI host bus adapter emulation, which allowed a user and/or process to crash the qemu process resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). (bsc#1114423) Other bugs fixed: - Fixed an issue related to a domU hang on SLE12-SP3 HV (bsc#1108940) - Fixed an issue with xpti=no-dom0 not working as expected (bsc#1105528) - Fixed an issue with live migrations, which used to fail when spectre is enabled on xen boot cmdline (bsc#1116380) - Upstream bug fixes (bsc#1027519)

Exploit probability Not scored
Published January 4, 2019
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

SUSE:Enterprise Storage 4 xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 xen
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 7 xen

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities SUSE-SU-2019:0020-1

This update for xen fixes the following issues: Security vulnerabilities fixed: - CVE-2018-19961, CVE-2018-19962: Fixed an issue related to insufficient TLB flushing with AMD IOMMUs, which potentially allowed a guest to escalate its privileges, may cause a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host, or may be able to access data it is not supposed to access. (XSA-275) (bsc#1115040) - CVE-2018-19965: Fixed an issue related to the INVPCID instruction in case non-canonical addresses are accessed, which may allow a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host. (XSA-279) (bsc#1115045) - CVE-2018-19966: Fixed an issue related to a previous fix for XSA-240, which conflicted with shadow paging and allowed a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-280) (bsc#1115047) - CVE-2018-19665: Fixed an integer overflow resulting in memory corruption in various Bluetooth functions, allowing this to crash qemu process resulting in Denial of Service (DoS). (bsc#1117756). - CVE-2018-18849: Fixed an out of bounds memory access in the LSI53C895A SCSI host bus adapter emulation, which allowed a user and/or process to crash the qemu process resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). (bsc#1114423) Other bugs fixed: - Fixed an issue related to a domU hang on SLE12-SP3 HV (bsc#1108940) - Fixed an issue with xpti=no-dom0 not working as expected (bsc#1105528) - Fixed an issue with live migrations, which used to fail when spectre is enabled on xen boot cmdline (bsc#1116380) - Upstream bug fixes (bsc#1027519)

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05 / REFERENCES

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