This update for xen fixes the following issues: These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2017-7228: Broken check in memory_exchange()     permited PV guest breakout (bsc#1030442).

  - XSA-206: Unprivileged guests issuing writes to xenstore     were able to stall progress of the control domain or     driver domain, possibly leading to a Denial of Service     (DoS) of the entire host (bsc#1030144).

  - CVE-2017-6505: The ohci_service_ed_list function in     hw/usb/hcd-ohci.c allowed local guest OS users to cause     a denial of service (infinite loop) via vectors     involving the number of link endpoint list descriptors     (bsc#1028235).

  - CVE-2017-6414: Memory leak in the vcard_apdu_new     function in card_7816.c in libcacard allowed local guest     OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory     consumption) via vectors related to allocating a new     APDU object (bsc#1027570).

  - CVE-2017-2633: The VNC display driver support was     vulnerable to an out-of-bounds memory access issue. A     user/process inside guest could use this flaw to cause     DoS (bsc#1026636).

  - CVE-2016-9603: A privileged user within the guest VM can     cause a heap overflow in the device model process,     potentially escalating their privileges to that of the     device model process (bsc#1028655).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

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.

Zhenhao Hong discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio GPU device. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-10028)

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the JAZZ RC4030 device. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-8667)

Jann Horn discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VirtFS directory sharing. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to access files on the host file system outside of the shared directory and possibly escalate their privileges. In the default installation, when QEMU is used with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile. (CVE-2016-9602)

Gerd Hoffmann discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Cirrus VGA device when being used with a VNC connection. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host. In the default installation, when QEMU is used with libvirt, attackers would be isolated by the libvirt AppArmor profile.
(CVE-2016-9603)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio GPU device. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to leak contents of host memory. (CVE-2016-9908)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the Virtio GPU device. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-9912, CVE-2017-5552, CVE-2017-5578)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled VirtFS directory sharing. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2016-9914)

Jiang Xin and Wjjzhang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled SDHCI device emulation. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2017-5987)

Li Qiang discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled USB OHCI controller emulation. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to hang, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2017-6505).

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

This update for xen fixes several security issues :

  - A malicious 64-bit PV guest may be able to access all of     system memory, allowing for all of privilege escalation,     host crashes, and information leaks by placing a IRET     hypercall in the middle of a multicall batch (XSA-213,     bsc#1034843)

  - A malicious pair of guests may be able to access all of     system memory, allowing for all of privilege escalation,     host crashes, and information leaks because of a missing     check when transfering pages via GNTTABOP_transfer     (XSA-214, bsc#1034844).

  - CVE-2017-7718: hw/display/cirrus_vga_rop.h allowed local     guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service     (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) via vectors     related to copying VGA data via the     cirrus_bitblt_rop_fwd_transp_ and cirrus_bitblt_rop_fwd_     functions (bsc#1034994).

  - CVE-2016-9603: A privileged user within the guest VM     could have caused a heap overflow in the device model     process, potentially escalating their privileges to that     of the device model process (bsc#1028655)

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.

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed :

  - A malicious 64-bit PV guest may be able to access all of     system memory, allowing for all of privilege escalation,     host crashes, and information leaks by placing a IRET     hypercall in the middle of a multicall batch (XSA-213,     bsc#1034843)

  - A malicious pair of guests may be able to access all of     system memory, allowing for all of privilege escalation,     host crashes, and information leaks because of a missing     check when transfering pages via GNTTABOP_transfer     (XSA-214, bsc#1034844).

  - CVE-2017-7718: hw/display/cirrus_vga_rop.h allowed local     guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service     (out-of-bounds read and QEMU process crash) via vectors     related to copying VGA data via the     cirrus_bitblt_rop_fwd_transp_ and cirrus_bitblt_rop_fwd_     functions (bsc#1034994).

  - CVE-2016-9603: A privileged user within the guest VM     could have caused a heap overflow in the device model     process, potentially escalating their privileges to that     of the device model process (bsc#1028655)

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

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
99579	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2017:1080-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	4/21/2017	12/23/2025	critical
99686	Ubuntu 17.04 : qemu vulnerabilities (USN-3268-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	4/26/2017	12/23/2025	critical
99961	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2017:1146-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	5/3/2017	12/22/2025	critical
99962	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2017:1147-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	5/3/2017	12/22/2025	critical

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