This update for xen fixes the following issues :

Update to Xen 4.10.2 bug fix release (bsc#1027519).

Security vulnerabilities fixed :

  - CVE-2018-19961, CVE-2018-19962: Fixed an issue related     to insufficient TLB flushing with AMD IOMMUs, which     potentially allowed a guest to escalate its privileges,     may cause a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire     host, or may be able to access data it is not supposed     to access. (XSA-275) (bsc#1115040)

  - CVE-2018-19965: Fixed an issue related to the INVPCID     instruction in case non-canonical addresses are     accessed, which may allow a guest to cause Xen to crash,     resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the     entire host. (XSA-279) (bsc#1115045)

  - CVE-2018-19966: Fixed an issue related to a previous fix     for XSA-240, which conflicted with shadow paging and     allowed a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a     Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-280) (bsc#1115047)

  - CVE-2018-18883: Fixed an issue related to inproper     restriction of nested VT-x, which allowed a guest to     cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service     (DoS). (XSA-278) (bsc#1114405)

  - CVE-2018-15468: Fixed incorrect MSR_DEBUGCTL handling,     which allowed guests to enable Branch Trace Store and     may cause a Denial of Service (DoS) of the entire host.
    (XSA-269) (bsc#1103276)

  - CVE-2018-15469: Fixed use of v2 grant tables on ARM,     which were not properly implemented and may cause a     Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-268) (bsc#1103275)

  - CVE-2018-15470: Fixed an issue in the logic in     oxenstored for handling writes, which allowed a guest to     write memory unbounded leading to system-wide Denial of     Service (DoS). (XSA-272) (bsc#1103279)

  - CVE-2018-3646: Mitigations for VMM aspects of L1     Terminal Fault (XSA-273) (bsc#1091107)

Other bugs fixed :

  - Fixed an issue related to a domU hang on SLE12-SP3 HV     (bsc#1108940)

  - Fixed an issue with xpti=no-dom0 not working as expected     (bsc#1105528)

  - Fixed a kernel oops related to fs/dcache.c called by     d_materialise_unique() (bsc#1094508)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

According to its self-reported version number, the Xen hypervisor installed on the remote host is affected by a guest-to-host denial of service vulnerability. An attacker located on a guest virtual machine may be able to exploit this vulnerability to affect the availability of the host system. Only 64-bit PV guests are affected.

Note that Nessus has checked the changeset versions based on the xen.git change log. Nessus did not check guest hardware configurations or if patches were applied manually to the source code before a recompile and reinstall.

This update for xen fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2019-6778: Fixed a heap buffer overflow in tcp_emu() found in slirp (bsc#1123157).

CVE-2017-13672: Fixed an out of bounds read access during display update (bsc#1056336).

Fixed an issue which could allow malicious or buggy guests with passed through PCI devices to be able to escalate their privileges, crash the host, or access data belonging to other guests. Additionally memory leaks were also possible (bsc#1126140)

Fixed a race condition issue which could allow malicious PV guests to escalate their privilege to that of the hypervisor (bsc#1126141).

CVE-2018-18849: Fixed an out of bounds msg buffer access which could lead to denial of service (bsc#1114423).

Fixed an issue which could allow a malicious unprivileged guest userspace process to escalate its privilege to that of other userspace processes in the same guest and potentially thereby to that of the guest operating system (bsc#1126201).

CVE-2018-17958: Fixed an integer overflow leading to a buffer overflow in the rtl8139 component (bsc#1111007)

CVE-2018-19967: Fixed HLE constructs that allowed guests to lock up the host, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). (XSA-282) (bsc#1114988)

CVE-2018-19665: Fixed an integer overflow resulting in memory corruption in various Bluetooth functions, allowing this to crash qemu process resulting in Denial of Service (DoS). (bsc#1117756).

CVE-2019-9824: Fixed an information leak in SLiRP networking implementation which could allow a user/process to read uninitialised stack memory contents (bsc#1129623).

CVE-2018-19961, CVE-2018-19962: Fixed an issue related to insufficient TLB flushing with AMD IOMMUs, which potentially allowed a guest to escalate its privileges, may cause a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host, or may be able to access data it is not supposed to access. (XSA-275) (bsc#1115040)

CVE-2018-19966: Fixed an issue related to a previous fix for XSA-240, which conflicted with shadow paging and allowed a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) (XSA-280) (bsc#1115047).

CVE-2018-10839: Fixed an integer overflow leading to a buffer overflow in the ne2000 component (bsc#1110924).

CVE-2018-19965: Fixed an issue related to the INVPCID instruction in case non-canonical addresses are accessed, which may allow a guest to cause Xen to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) affecting the entire host. (XSA-279) (bsc#1115045).

Fixed an issue which could allow malicious 64bit PV guests to cause a host crash (bsc#1127400).

Fixed an issue which could allow malicious PV guests may cause a host crash or gain access to data pertaining to other guests.Additionally, vulnerable configurations are likely to be unstable even in the absence of an attack (bsc#1126198).

Fixed multiple access violations introduced by XENMEM_exchange hypercall which could allow a single PV guest to leak arbitrary amounts of memory, leading to a denial of service (bsc#1126192).

CVE-2018-17963: Fixed an integer overflow in relation to large packet sizes, leading to a denial of service (DoS). (bsc#1111014).

Fixed an issue which could allow a malicious or buggy x86 PV guest kernels can mount a Denial of Service attack affecting the whole system (bsc#1126196).

Fixed an issue which could allow an untrusted PV domain with access to a physical device to DMA into its own pagetables leading to privilege escalation (bsc#1126195).

CVE-2018-17962: Fixed an integer overflow leading to a buffer overflow in the pcnet component (bsc#1111011)

CVE-2018-18438: Fixed an integer overflow in ccid_card_vscard_read function which could lead to memory corruption (bsc#1112188).

Other issues fixed: Upstream bug fixes (bsc#1027519)

Fixed an issue where XEN SLE12-SP1 domU hangs on SLE12-SP3 HV1108940 (bsc#1108940).

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.

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

  - An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing 64-bit PV guest OS users to cause a denial of     service (host OS crash) because #GP[0] can occur after a non-canonical address is passed to the TLB     flushing code. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incorrect CVE-2017-5754 (aka Meltdown) mitigation.
    (CVE-2018-19965)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
119951	openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2018-1624) (Foreshadow)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	12/31/2018	7/12/2024	high
119659	Xen Project INVPCID with Non-Canonical Addresses DoS (XSA-279)	Nessus	Misc.	12/13/2018	3/21/2025	medium
123634	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2019:0827-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	4/2/2019	6/6/2024	critical
254008	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-19965	Nessus	Misc.	8/24/2025	7/29/2026	medium

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