eepro100: Prevent two endless loops [CVE-2015-8345], pcnet: fix rx buffer overflow [CVE-2015-7512], ui: vnc: avoid floating point exception [CVE-2015-8504], additional patch for [XSA-158, CVE-2015-8338] long running memory operations on ARM [XSA-158, CVE-2015-8338] XENMEM_exchange error handling issues [XSA-159, CVE-2015-8339, CVE-2015-8340] libxl leak of pv kernel and initrd on error [XSA-160, CVE-2015-8341] ---- heap buffer overflow vulnerability in pcnet emulator [XSA-162, CVE-2015-7504], virtual PMU is unsupported [XSA-163]

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for xen fixes the following security issues :

  - CVE-2015-8550: paravirtualized drivers incautious about     shared memory contents (XSA-155, boo#957988)

  - CVE-2015-8558: qemu: usb: infinite loop in     ehci_advance_state results in DoS (boo#959006)

  - CVE-2015-7549: qemu pci: NULL pointer dereference issue     (boo#958918)

  - CVE-2015-8504: qemu: ui: vnc: avoid floating point     exception (boo#958493)

  - CVE-2015-8554: qemu-dm buffer overrun in MSI-X handling     (XSA-164, boo#958007) 

  - CVE-2015-8555: information leak in legacy x86 FPU/XMM     initialization (XSA-165, boo#958009)

  - boo#958523 xen: ioreq handling possibly susceptible to     multiple read issue (XSA-166)

  - CVE-2015-8345: xen: qemu: net: eepro100: infinite loop     in processing command block list (boo#956832)

  - boo#956592: xen: virtual PMU is unsupported (XSA-163)

  - CVE-2015-8339, CVE-2015-8340: xen: XENMEM_exchange error     handling issues (XSA-159, boo#956408)

  - CVE-2015-8341: xen: libxl leak of pv kernel and initrd     on error (XSA-160, boo#956409)

  - CVE-2015-7504: xen: heap buffer overflow vulnerability     in pcnet emulator (XSA-162, boo#956411)

  - CVE-2015-7311: xen: libxl fails to honour readonly flag     on disks with qemu-xen (xsa-142, boo#947165)

  - CVE-2015-8104: Xen: guest to host DoS by triggering an     infinite loop in microcode via #DB exception     (boo#954405)

  - CVE-2015-5307: xen: x86: CPU lockup during fault     delivery (XSA-156, boo#954018)

  - CVE-2015-7970: xen: x86: Long latency populate-on-demand     operation is not preemptible (XSA-150, boo#950704)

This update for xen fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2015-8567,CVE-2015-8568: xen: qemu: net: vmxnet3:
    host memory leakage (boo#959387)

  - CVE-2015-8550: xen: paravirtualized drivers incautious     about shared memory contents (XSA-155, boo#957988)

  - CVE-2015-8558: xen: qemu: usb: infinite loop in     ehci_advance_state results in DoS (boo#959006)

  - CVE-2015-7549: xen: qemu pci: NULL pointer dereference     issue (boo#958918)

  - CVE-2015-8504: xen: qemu: ui: vnc: avoid floating point     exception (boo#958493)

  - CVE-2015-8554: xen: qemu-dm buffer overrun in MSI-X     handling (XSA-164, boo#958007)

  - CVE-2015-8555: xen: information leak in legacy x86     FPU/XMM initialization (XSA-165, boo#958009)

  - boo#958523: xen: ioreq handling possibly susceptible to     multiple read issue (XSA-166)

  - CVE-2015-8345: xen: qemu: net: eepro100: infinite loop     in processing command block list (boo#956832)

  - CVE-2015-5307: xen: x86: CPU lockup during fault     delivery (XSA-156, boo#954018)

  - boo#956592: xen: virtual PMU is unsupported (XSA-163)

  - CVE-2015-8339, CVE-2015-8340: xen: XENMEM_exchange error     handling issues (XSA-159, boo#956408)

  - CVE-2015-8341: xen: libxl leak of pv kernel and initrd     on error (XSA-160, boo#956409)

  - CVE-2015-7504: xen: heap buffer overflow vulnerability     in pcnet emulator (XSA-162, boo#956411)

This update fixes the following security issues :

  - bsc#956832 - CVE-2015-8345: xen: qemu: net: eepro100:
    infinite loop in processing command block list

  - Revert x86/IO-APIC: don't create pIRQ mapping from     masked RTE until kernel maintenance release goes out.

  - bsc#956592 - xen: virtual PMU is unsupported (XSA-163)

  - bsc#956408 - CVE-2015-8339, CVE-2015-8340: xen:
    XENMEM_exchange error handling issues (XSA-159)

  - bsc#956409 - CVE-2015-8341: xen: libxl leak of pv kernel     and initrd on error (XSA-160)

  - bsc#956411 - CVE-2015-7504: xen: heap buffer overflow     vulnerability in pcnet emulator (XSA-162)

  - bsc#947165 - CVE-2015-7311: xen: libxl fails to honour     readonly flag on disks with qemu-xen (xsa-142)

  - bsc#954405 - CVE-2015-8104: Xen: guest to host DoS by     triggering an infinite loop in microcode via #DB     exception

  - bsc#954018 - CVE-2015-5307: xen: x86: CPU lockup during     fault delivery (XSA-156)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
89151	Fedora 23 : xen-4.5.2-5.fc23 (2015-12a089920e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	3/4/2016	1/11/2021	critical
88124	openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2016-34)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	1/25/2016	1/19/2021	high
88126	openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2016-36)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	1/25/2016	1/19/2021	high
87588	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2015:2324-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	12/22/2015	1/6/2021	high

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