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SUSE-SU-2016:1318-1

Published: 17 May 2016Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

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Summary: Security update for xen

Details: xen was updated to fix 46 security issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2013-4527: Buffer overflow in hw/timer/hpet.c might have allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the number of timers (bsc#964746). - CVE-2013-4529: Buffer overflow in hw/pci/pcie_aer.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large log_num value in a savevm image (bsc#964929). - CVE-2013-4530: Buffer overflow in hw/ssi/pl022.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted tx_fifo_head and rx_fifo_head values in a savevm image (bsc#964950). - CVE-2013-4533: Buffer overflow in the pxa2xx_ssp_load function in hw/arm/pxa2xx.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted s->rx_level value in a savevm image (bsc#964644). - CVE-2013-4534: Buffer overflow in hw/intc/openpic.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to IRQDest elements (bsc#964452). - CVE-2013-4537: The ssi_sd_transfer function in hw/sd/ssi-sd.c allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted arglen value in a savevm image (bsc#962642). - CVE-2013-4538: Multiple buffer overflows in the ssd0323_load function in hw/display/ssd0323.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted (1) cmd_len, (2) row, or (3) col values; (4) row_start and row_end values; or (5) col_star and col_end values in a savevm image (bsc#962335). - CVE-2013-4539: Multiple buffer overflows in the tsc210x_load function in hw/input/tsc210x.c might have allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) precision, (2) nextprecision, (3) function, or (4) nextfunction value in a savevm image (bsc#962758). - CVE-2014-0222: Integer overflow in the qcow_open function in block/qcow.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large L2 table in a QCOW version 1 image (bsc#964925). - CVE-2014-3640: The sosendto function in slirp/udp.c allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by sending a udp packet with a value of 0 in the source port and address, which triggers access of an uninitialized socket (bsc#965112). - CVE-2014-3689: The vmware-vga driver (hw/display/vmware_vga.c) allowed local guest users to write to qemu memory locations and gain privileges via unspecified parameters related to rectangle handling (bsc#962611). - CVE-2014-7815: The set_pixel_format function in ui/vnc.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a small bytes_per_pixel value (bsc#962627). - CVE-2014-9718: The (1) BMDMA and (2) AHCI HBA interfaces in the IDE functionality had multiple interpretations of a function's return value, which allowed guest OS users to cause a host OS denial of service (memory consumption or infinite loop, and system crash) via a PRDT with zero complete sectors, related to the bmdma_prepare_buf and ahci_dma_prepare_buf functions (bsc#964431). - CVE-2015-1779: The VNC websocket frame decoder allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a large (1) websocket payload or (2) HTTP headers section (bsc#962632). - CVE-2015-5278: Infinite loop in ne2000_receive() function (bsc#964947). - CVE-2015-6855: hw/ide/core.c did not properly restrict the commands accepted by an ATAPI device, which allowed guest users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via certain IDE commands, as demonstrated by a WIN_READ_NATIVE_MAX command to an empty drive, which triggers a divide-by-zero error and instance crash (bsc#965156). - CVE-2015-7512: Buffer overflow in the pcnet_receive function in hw/net/pcnet.c, when a guest NIC has a larger MTU, allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) or execute arbitrary code via a large packet (bsc#962360). - CVE-2015-7549: pci: NULL pointer dereference issue (bsc#958918). - CVE-2015-8345: eepro100: infinite loop in processing command block list (bsc#956832). - CVE-2015-8504: VNC: floating point exception (bsc#958493). - CVE-2015-8550: Paravirtualized drivers were incautious about shared memory contents (XSA-155) (bsc#957988). - CVE-2015-8554: qemu-dm buffer overrun in MSI-X handling (XSA-164) (bsc#958007). - CVE-2015-8555: Information leak in legacy x86 FPU/XMM initialization (XSA-165) (bsc#958009). - CVE-2015-8558: Infinite loop in ehci_advance_state resulted in DoS (bsc#959006). - CVE-2015-8567: vmxnet3: host memory leakage (bsc#959387). - CVE-2015-8568: vmxnet3: host memory leakage (bsc#959387). - CVE-2015-8613: SCSI: stack based buffer overflow in megasas_ctrl_get_info (bsc#961358). - CVE-2015-8619: Stack based OOB write in hmp_sendkey routine (bsc#965269). - CVE-2015-8743: ne2000: OOB memory access in ioport r/w functions (bsc#960726). - CVE-2015-8744: vmxnet3: Incorrect l2 header validation lead to a crash via assert(2) call (bsc#960836). - CVE-2015-8745: Reading IMR registers lead to a crash via assert(2) call (bsc#960707). - CVE-2015-8817: OOB access in address_space_rw lead to segmentation fault (I) (bsc#969125). - CVE-2015-8818: OOB access in address_space_rw lead to segmentation fault (II) (bsc#969126). - CVE-2016-1568: AHCI use-after-free vulnerability in aio port commands (bsc#961332). - CVE-2016-1570: The PV superpage functionality in arch/x86/mm.c allowed local PV guests to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service, gain privileges, or have unspecified other impact via a crafted page identifier (MFN) to the (1) MMUEXT_MARK_SUPER or (2) MMUEXT_UNMARK_SUPER sub-op in the HYPERVISOR_mmuext_op hypercall or (3) unknown vectors related to page table updates (bsc#960861). - CVE-2016-1571: VMX: intercept issue with INVLPG on non-canonical address (XSA-168) (bsc#960862). - CVE-2016-1714: nvram: OOB r/w access in processing firmware configurations (bsc#961692). - CVE-2016-1922: NULL pointer dereference in vapic_write() (bsc#962321). - CVE-2016-1981: e1000 infinite loop in start_xmit and e1000_receive_iov routines (bsc#963783). - CVE-2016-2198: EHCI NULL pointer dereference in ehci_caps_write (bsc#964415). - CVE-2016-2270: Xen allowed local guest administrators to cause a denial of service (host reboot) via vectors related to multiple mappings of MMIO pages with different cachability settings (bsc#965315). - CVE-2016-2271: VMX when using an Intel or Cyrix CPU, allowed local HVM guest users to cause a denial of service (guest crash) via vectors related to a non-canonical RIP (bsc#965317). - CVE-2016-2391: usb: multiple eof_timers in ohci module lead to NULL pointer dereference (bsc#967101). - CVE-2016-2392: NULL pointer dereference in remote NDIS control message handling (bsc#967090). - CVE-2016-2538: Integer overflow in remote NDIS control message handling (bsc#968004). - XSA-166: ioreq handling possibly susceptible to multiple read issue (bsc#958523). These non-security issues were fixed: - bsc#954872: script block-dmmd not working as expected - bsc#963923: domain weights not honored when sched-credit tslice is reduced - bsc#959695: Missing docs for xen

Affected packages

Package

Name: xen

Purl: pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM

Events:

Introduced- 0

Fixed -4.4.4_02-22.19.1

Affected versions

Common Vulnerability Scoring System

Attack Vector

Network

Adjacent

Local

Physical

Privileges Required

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Low

High

User Interaction

None

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Changed

Confidentiality

None

Low

High

Integrity

None

Low

High

Availability

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High