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)

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.

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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:4300-1) (Foreshadow)

high Nessus Plugin ID 120196

Version 1.5