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Medium SUSE-RU-2019:2715-1 6 CVEs

Recommended update for xen

Published Oct 18, 2019 · Updated May 2, 2025

Summary

This update for xen to version 4.12.1 fixes the following issues:

- Fixed an issue which made Xen crash on AMD ROME based machines (bsc#1135799).
- Xenpvnetboot is now ported correctly to Python 3 (bsc#1138563).
- Added code to change LIBXL_HOTPLUG_TIMEOUT at runtime (bsc#1120095).
The included README has details about the impact of this change
- Fixed an issue where the speculative mitigation facilities reported wrong status (bsc#1143563).
- Fixed an issue where Xen could not connect socket to /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock (bsc#1137471).
- Fixed an HPS bug which did not allow to install Windows Server 2016 with 2 CPUs setting or above
(bsc#1137717).
- Fixed a segmentation fault in Libvrtd during live migration to a VM (bsc#1145774).
- LTO is now disabled (bsc#1133296).
- Fixed an issue where Xen could not pre-allocate 1 shadow page (bsc#1145240).

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
SUSE · SLES 15 SP1 Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 xen 4.12.1_02-3.3.1
SUSE · SLES 15 SP1 Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP1 xen 4.12.1_02-3.3.1

Vulnerabilities 6

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/1027519
  • report
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/1111331
  • report
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/1120095
  • report
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/1133296
  • report
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/1135799
  • report
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/1137471
  • report
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/1137717
  • report
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/1138294
  • report
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/1138563
  • report
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/1143563
  • report
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/1145240
  • report
    https://bugzilla.suse.com/1145774
  • web
    https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12126
  • web
    https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12127
  • web
    https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12130
  • web
    https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11091
  • web
    https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17349
  • web
    https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17350