This update for xen fixes the following issues :

CVE-2020-29480: Fixed an issue which could have allowed leak of non-sensitive data to administrator guests (bsc#117949 XSA-115).

CVE-2020-29481: Fixed an issue which could have allowd to new domains to inherit existing node permissions (bsc#1179498 XSA-322).

CVE-2020-29483: Fixed an issue where guests could disturb domain cleanup (bsc#1179502 XSA-325).

CVE-2020-29484: Fixed an issue where guests could crash xenstored via watchs (bsc#1179501 XSA-324).

CVE-2020-29566: Fixed an undue recursion in x86 HVM context switch code (bsc#1179506 XSA-348).

CVE-2020-29570: Fixed an issue where FIFO event channels control block related ordering (bsc#1179514 XSA-358).

CVE-2020-29571: Fixed an issue where FIFO event channels control structure ordering (bsc#1179516 XSA-359).

CVE-2020-29130: Fixed an out-of-bounds access while processing ARP packets (bsc#1179477).

Fixed an issue where dump-core shows missing nr_pages during core (bsc#1176782).

Multiple other bugs (bsc#1027519)

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 SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2020:3913-1)

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