An update that solves 13 vulnerabilities and has 9 fixes is now available.
Description:
xen was updated to fix 12 security issues.
These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2015-7972: Populate-on-demand balloon size inaccuracy can crash guests (bsc#951845). - CVE-2015-7969: Leak of main per-domain vcpu pointer array (DoS) (bsc#950703). - CVE-2015-7969: Leak of per-domain profiling-related vcpu pointer array (DoS) (bsc#950705). - CVE-2015-7971: Some pmu and profiling hypercalls log without rate limiting (bsc#950706). - CVE-2015-4037: Insecure temporary file use in /net/slirp.c (bsc#932267). - CVE-2014-0222: Validate L2 table size to avoid integer overflows (bsc#877642). - CVE-2015-7835: Uncontrolled creation of large page mappings by PV guests (bsc#950367). - CVE-2015-7311: libxl fails to honour readonly flag on disks with qemu-xen (bsc#947165). - CVE-2015-5165: QEMU leak of uninitialized heap memory in rtl8139 device model (bsc#939712). - CVE-2015-5166: Use after free in QEMU/Xen block unplug protocol (bsc#939709). - CVE-2015-5154: Host code execution via IDE subsystem CD-ROM (bsc#938344). - CVE-2015-3259: xl command line config handling stack overflow (bsc#935634).
These non-security issues were fixed: - bsc#907514: Bus fatal error and sles12 sudden reboot has been observed - bsc#910258: SLES12 Xen host crashes with FATAL NMI after shutdown of guest with VT-d NIC - bsc#918984: Bus fatal error and sles11-SP4 sudden reboot has been observed - bsc#923967: Partner-L3: Bus fatal error and sles11-SP3 sudden reboot has been observed - bsc#901488: Intel ixgbe driver assigns rx/tx queues per core resulting in irq problems on servers with a large amount of CPU cores - bsc#945167: Running command xl pci-assignable-add 03:10.1 secondly show errors - bsc#949138: Setting vcpu affinity under Xen causes libvirtd abort - bsc#944463: VUL-0: CVE-2015-5239: qemu-kvm: Integer overflow in vnc_client_read() and protocol_client_msg() - bsc#944697: VUL-1: CVE-2015-6815: qemu: net: e1000: infinite loop issue - bsc#925466: Kdump does not work in a XEN environment
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE 13.2:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-750=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
