SUSE-SU-2021:1460-1

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    SUSE-SU-2021:1460-1

    Published: 30 Apr 2021Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Security update for xen

    Details: This update for xen fixes the following issues: - CVE-2020-28368: Intel RAPL sidechannel attack aka PLATYPUS attack (bsc#1178591, XSA-351) - CVE-2021-3308: IRQ vector leak on x86 (bsc#1181254, XSA-360) - CVE-2021-28687: HVM soft-reset crashes toolstack (bsc#1183072, XSA-368) - L3: conring size for XEN HV's with huge memory to small (bsc#1177204). - kdump of HVM fails, soft-reset not handled by libxl (bsc#1179148) - openQA job causes libvirtd to dump core when running kdump inside domain (bsc#1181989). - Upstream bug fixes (bsc#1027519)

    References: https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2021/suse-su-20211460-1/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1027519, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1177204, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178591, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179148, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1181254, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1181989, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1183072, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-28368, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-28687, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3308

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: xen

    Purl: pkg:rpm/suse/xen&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-ESPOS

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.12.4_08-3.43.3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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