This update for xen fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2017-10912: Page transfer might have allowed PV     guest to elevate privilege (XSA-217, bsc#1042882)

  - CVE-2017-10913 CVE-2017-10914: Races in the grant table     unmap code allowed for informations leaks and     potentially privilege escalation (XSA-218, bsc#1042893)

  - CVE-2017-10915: Insufficient reference counts during     shadow emulation allowed a malicious pair of guest to     elevate their privileges to the privileges that XEN runs     under (XSA-219, bsc#1042915)

  - CVE-2017-10917: Missing NULL pointer check in event     channel poll allows guests to DoS the host (XSA-221,     bsc#1042924)

  - CVE-2017-10918: Stale P2M mappings due to insufficient     error checking allowed malicious guest to leak     information or elevate privileges (XSA-222, bsc#1042931)

  - CVE-2017-10920, CVE-2017-10921, CVE-2017-10922: Grant     table operations mishandled reference counts allowing     malicious guests to escape (XSA-224, bsc#1042938)

  - CVE-2017-9330: USB OHCI Emulation in qemu allowed local     guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite     loop) by leveraging an incorrect return value     (bsc#1042160)

  - CVE-2017-8309: Memory leak in the audio/audio.c allowed     remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory     consumption) by repeatedly starting and stopping audio     capture (bsc#1037243)

  - PKRU and BND* leakage between vCPU-s might have leaked     information to other guests (XSA-220, bsc#1042923)

These non-security issues were fixed :

  - bsc#1027519: Included various upstream patches 

  - bsc#1035642: Ensure that rpmbuild works

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

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

  - CVE-2017-10911: blkif responses leaked backend stack     data, which allowed unprivileged guest to obtain     sensitive information from the host or other guests     (XSA-216, bsc#1042863)

  - CVE-2017-10912: Page transfer might have allowed PV     guest to elevate privilege (XSA-217, bsc#1042882)

  - CVE-2017-10913, CVE-2017-10914: Races in the grant table     unmap code allowed for informations leaks and     potentially privilege escalation (XSA-218, bsc#1042893)

  - CVE-2017-10915: Insufficient reference counts during     shadow emulation allowed a malicious pair of guest to     elevate their privileges to the privileges that XEN runs     under (XSA-219, bsc#1042915)

  - CVE-2017-10917: Missing NULL pointer check in event     channel poll allows guests to DoS the host (XSA-221,     bsc#1042924)

  - CVE-2017-10918: Stale P2M mappings due to insufficient     error checking allowed malicious guest to leak     information or elevate privileges (XSA-222, bsc#1042931)

  - CVE-2017-10922, CVE-2017-10921, CVE-2017-10920: Grant     table operations mishandled reference counts allowing     malicious guests to escape (XSA-224, bsc#1042938)

  - CVE-2017-10916: PKRU and BND* leakage between vCPU-s     might have leaked information to other guests (XSA-220,     bsc#1042923)

  - CVE-2017-9330: USB OHCI Emulation in qemu allowed local     guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite     loop) by leveraging an incorrect return value     (bsc#1042160)

  - CVE-2017-8309: Memory leak in the audio/audio.c allowed     remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory     consumption) by repeatedly starting and stopping audio     capture (bsc#1037243)

  - CVE-2017-8112: hw/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c allowed local guest     OS privileged users to cause a denial of service     (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via the message ring     page count (bsc#1036470)

  - CVE-2017-8905: Xen a failsafe callback, which might have     allowed PV guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on     the host OS (XSA-215, bsc#1034845).

  - CVE-2017-9503: The MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter     emulation support was vulnerable to a NULL pointer     dereference issue which allowed a privileged user inside     guest to crash the Qemu process on the host resulting in     DoS (bsc#1043297)

  - CVE-2017-9374: Missing free of 's->ipacket', causes a     host memory leak, allowing for DoS (bsc#1043074)

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.

xen: various flaws (#1463247) blkif responses leak backend stack data [XSA-216] page transfer may allow PV guest to elevate privilege [XSA-217] Races in the grant table unmap code [XSA-218] x86:
insufficient reference counts during shadow emulation [XSA-219] x86:
PKRU and BND* leakage between vCPU-s [XSA-220] stale P2M mappings due to insufficient error checking [XSA-222] ARM guest disabling interrupt may crash Xen [XSA-223] grant table operations mishandle reference counts [XSA-224] arm: vgic: Out-of-bound access when sending SGIs [XSA-225] NULL pointer deref in event channel poll [XSA-221] (#1463231)

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

The version of Citrix XenServer installed on the remote host is missing a security hotfix. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities :

  - A flaw exists that causes grant table operations to fail     due to improper handling of reference counts. An     unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to     have an unspecified impact.

  - An information disclosure vulnerability exists due to     blkif responses leaking stack data. An unauthenticated,     remote attacker can exploit this to disclose potentially     sensitive information.

  - A NULL pointer dereference flaw exists in the event     channel poll that allows an unauthenticated, remote     attacker to cause a denial of service condition.

  - A flaw exists in shadow emulation due to insufficient     reference counts. An unauthenticated, remote attacker     can exploit this to have an unspecified impact.

  - A race condition exists in the grant table unmap code     that allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to have     an unspecified impact.

  - An unspecified flaw exists in page transfers that allows     a local attacker on the PV guest to gain elevated     privileges.

  - A flaw exists that is triggered by stale P2M mappings     due to insufficient error checking. An unauthenticated,     remote attacker can exploit this to have an unspecified     impact.

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2017-0142 for details.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Xen through 4.8.x mishandles page transfer, which allows guest OS users to obtain privileged host OS     access, aka XSA-217. (CVE-2017-10912)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
101349	openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2017-799)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	7/10/2017	12/12/2025	critical
101350	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2017:1812-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	7/10/2017	12/12/2025	critical
101183	Fedora 24 : xen (2017-b3bdaf58bc)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	7/3/2017	12/12/2025	critical
101205	Citrix XenServer Multiple Vulnerabilities (CTX224740)	Nessus	Misc.	7/3/2017	4/24/2020	critical
102835	OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2017-0142)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	8/30/2017	11/25/2025	critical
220281	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-10912	Nessus	Misc.	3/4/2025	7/29/2026	critical

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