SUSE-SU-2018:1981-1

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    SUSE-SU-2018:1981-1

    Published: 17 Jul 2018Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Security update for xen

    Details: This update for xen fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-3665: Fix Lazy FP Save/Restore issue (XSA-267) (bsc#1095242). - CVE-2018-12891: Fix possible Denial of Service (DoS) via certain PV MMU operations that affect the entire host (XSA-264) (bsc#1097521). - CVE-2018-12892: Fix libxl to honour the readonly flag on HVM emulated SCSI disks (XSA-266) (bsc#1097523). - CVE-2018-12893: Fix crash/Denial of Service (DoS) via safety check (XSA-265) (bsc#1097522). Bug fixes: - bsc#1027519: Add upstream patches from January. - bsc#1098403: Fix regression introduced by changes for bsc#1079730. A PV domU without qcow2 and/or vfb has no qemu attached. Ignore QMP errors for PV domUs to handle PV domUs with and without an attached qemu-xen. - bsc#1087289: Fix xen scheduler crash.

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: xen

    Purl: pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.10.1_06-3.3.1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
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    Availability
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