QID 174972

Date Published: 2021-05-04

QID 174972: SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for xen (SUSE-SU-2021:1460-1)

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2020-28368: Intel RAPL sidechannel attack aka PLATYPUS attack
(bsc#1178591, XSA-351)
- CVE-2021-3308: IRQ vector leak on x86 (bsc#1181254, XSA-360)
- CVE-2021-28687: HVM soft-reset crashes toolstack (bsc#1183072, XSA-368)
- L3: conring size for XEN HV's with huge memory to small (bsc#1177204).
- kdump of HVM fails, soft-reset not handled by libxl (bsc#1179148)
- openQA job causes libvirtd to dump core when running kdump inside domain
(bsc#1181989).
- Upstream bug fixes (bsc#1027519)

Successful exploitation allows attacker to compromise the system.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 5.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Low - 2.1 severity.
  • Solution
    Upgrade to the latest package which contains the patch. To install this SUSE Security, Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product. To install packages using the command line interface, use command "yum update". Refer to Suse security advisory: SUSE-SU-2021:1460-1 to address this issue and obtain further details.

    CVEs related to QID 174972

    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    SUSE-SU-2021:1460-1 SUSE Enterprise Linux URL Logo lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2021-April/008718.html