Mageia 2020-0113: xen security update
Summary
- Updated from 4.12.0 to 4.12.1
- Device quarantine for alternate pci assignment methods [XSA-306]
- x86: Machine Check Error on Page Size Change DoS [XSA-304, CVE-2018-12207]
- TSX Asynchronous Abort speculative side channel [XSA-305, CVE-2019-11135]
- VCPUOP_initialise DoS [XSA-296, CVE-2019-18420] (rhbz#1771368)
- missing descriptor table limit checking in x86 PV emulation [XSA-298,
CVE-2019-18425] (rhbz#1771341)
- Issues with restartable PV type change operations [XSA-299, CVE-2019-18421]
(rhbz#1767726)
- add-to-physmap can be abused to DoS Arm hosts [XSA-301, CVE-2019-18423]
(rhbz#1771345)
- passed through PCI devices may corrupt host memory after deassignment
[XSA-302, CVE-2019-18424] (rhbz#1767731)
- ARM: Interrupts are unconditionally unmasked in exception handlers [XSA-303, CVE-2019-18422] (rhbz#1771443)
- Unlimited Arm Atomics Operations [XSA-295, CVE-2019-17349,
CVE-2019-17350] (rhbz#1720760)
- fix HVM DomU boot on some chipsets
- adjust grub2 workaround
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25782
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-295.html
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-296.html
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-298.html
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-299.html
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-301.html
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-302.html
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-303.html
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-304.html
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-305.html
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-306.html
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-12207
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-11135
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-17349
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-17349
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-17350
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-18420
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-18421
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-18422
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-18423
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-18424
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-18425
Resolution
MGASA-2020-0113 - Updated xen packages fix security vulnerability
SRPMS
- 7/core/xen-4.12.1-1.mga7