This update for xen fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2019-15890: Fixed a use-after-free in SLiRP networking implementation of QEMU emulator which could have led to Denial of Service (bsc#1149813).

CVE-2019-12068: Fixed an issue in lsi which could lead to an infinite loop and denial of service (bsc#1146874).

CVE-2019-14378: Fixed a heap buffer overflow in SLiRp networking implementation of QEMU emulator which could have led to execution of arbitrary code with privileges of the QEMU process (bsc#1143797).

Other issue fixed: Fixed an issue where libxenlight could not restore domain vsa6535522 on live migration (bsc#1133818).

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.

Modern Intel microprocessors implement hardware-level micro-optimizations to improve the performance of writing data back to CPU caches. The write operation is split into STA (STore Address) and STD (STore Data) sub-operations. These sub-operations allow the processor to hand-off address generation logic into these sub-operations for optimized writes. Both of these sub-operations write to a shared distributed processor structure called the 'processor store buffer'. As a result, an unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to read private data resident within the CPU's processor store buffer.(CVE-2018-12126)

Uncacheable memory on some microprocessors utilizing speculative execution may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via a side channel with local access.(CVE-2019-11091)

Microprocessors use a load port subcomponent to perform load operations from memory or IO. During a load operation, the load port receives data from the memory or IO subsystem and then provides the data to the CPU registers and operations in the CPUs pipelines. Stale load operations results are stored in the 'load port' table until overwritten by newer operations. Certain load-port operations triggered by an attacker can be used to reveal data about previous stale requests leaking data back to the attacker via a timing side-channel.(CVE-2018-12127)

A flaw was found in the implementation of the 'fill buffer', a mechanism used by modern CPUs when a cache-miss is made on L1 CPU cache. If an attacker can generate a load operation that would create a page fault, the execution will continue speculatively with incorrect data from the fill buffer while the data is fetched from higher level caches. This response time can be measured to infer data in the fill buffer.(CVE-2018-12130)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor, which could result in denial of service, guest-to-host privilege escalation or information leaks.

In addition this update provides mitigations for the 'TSX Asynchronous Abort'speculative side channel attack. For additional information please refer to https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-305.html

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1168 advisory.

    The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

    Security Fix(es):

    * A flaw was found in the implementation of the fill buffer, a mechanism used by modern CPUs when a     cache-miss is made on L1 CPU cache.  If an attacker can generate a load operation that would create a page     fault, the execution will continue speculatively with incorrect data from the fill buffer while the data     is fetched from higher level caches.  This response time can be measured to infer data in the fill buffer.
    (CVE-2018-12130)

    * Modern Intel microprocessors implement hardware-level micro-optimizations to improve the performance of     writing data back to CPU caches. The write operation is split into STA (STore Address) and STD (STore     Data) sub-operations. These sub-operations allow the processor to hand-off address generation logic into     these sub-operations for optimized writes. Both of these sub-operations write to a shared distributed     processor structure called the 'processor store buffer'.  As a result, an unprivileged attacker could use     this flaw to read private data resident within the CPU's processor store buffer. (CVE-2018-12126)

    * Microprocessors use a load port subcomponent to perform load operations from memory or IO. During     a load operation, the load port receives data from the memory or IO subsystem and then provides the data     to the CPU registers and operations in the CPUs pipelines. Stale load operations results are stored in     the 'load port' table until overwritten by newer operations. Certain load-port operations triggered by an     attacker can be used to reveal data about previous stale requests leaking data back to the attacker via a     timing side-channel. (CVE-2018-12127)

    * Uncacheable memory on some microprocessors utilizing speculative execution may allow an authenticated     user to potentially enable information disclosure via a side channel with local access. (CVE-2019-11091)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update for xen fixes the following issues :

Four new speculative execution information leak issues have been identified in Intel CPUs. (bsc#1111331)

CVE-2018-12126: Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling (MSBDS)

CVE-2018-12127: Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampling (MFBDS)

CVE-2018-12130: Microarchitectural Load Port Data Sampling (MLPDS)

CVE-2019-11091: Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory (MDSUM)

These updates contain the XEN Hypervisor adjustments, that additionally also use CPU Microcode updates.

The mitigation can be controlled via the 'mds' commandline option, see the documentation.

For more information on this set of vulnerabilities, check out https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7023736

Other fixes: CVE-2018-20815: Fixed a heap buffer overflow while loading device tree blob (bsc#1130680).

Added upstream bug fix (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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
130253	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2019:2769-1) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	10/25/2019	12/5/2022	high
127816	Amazon Linux AMI : qemu-kvm (ALAS-2019-1260) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	8/13/2019	5/27/2024	medium
132875	Debian DSA-4602-1 : xen - security update (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	1/15/2020	5/27/2024	critical
125303	openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2019-1407) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	5/21/2019	5/21/2024	high
125037	RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2019:1168)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	5/14/2019	11/6/2024	medium
125472	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2019:14063-1) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	5/28/2019	5/27/2024	critical

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