[ubuntu/yakkety-security] xen 4.7.2-0ubuntu1.2 (Accepted)

Marc Deslauriers marc.deslauriers at canonical.com
Mon May 15 11:42:14 UTC 2017


xen (4.7.2-0ubuntu1.2) yakkety-security; urgency=low

  * Applying Xen Security Advisories:
    - XSA-206
      * xenstored: apply a write transaction rate limit
      * xenstored: Log when the write transaction rate limit bites
      * oxenstored: comments explaining some variables
      * oxenstored: handling of domain conflict-credit
      * oxenstored: ignore domains with no conflict-credit
      * oxenstored: add transaction info relevant to history-tracking
      * oxenstored: support commit history tracking
      * oxenstored: only record operations with side-effects in history
      * oxenstored: discard old commit-history on txn end
      * oxenstored: track commit history
      * oxenstored: blame the connection that caused a transaction conflict
      * oxenstored: allow self-conflicts
      * oxenstored: do not commit read-only transactions
      * oxenstored: don't wake to issue no conflict-credit
      * oxenstored transaction conflicts: improve logging
      * oxenstored: trim history in the frequent_ops function
    - CVE-2017-7228 / XSA-212
      * memory: properly check guest memory ranges in XENMEM_exchange handling
    - XSA-213
      * multicall: deal with early exit conditions
    - XSA-214
      * x86: discard type information when stealing pages

xen (4.7.2-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * Rebasing to upstream stable release 4.7.2 (LP: #1672767)
    https://www.xenproject.org/downloads/xen-archives/xen-47-series.html
    - Includes fix for booting 4.10 Linux kernels in HVM guests on Intel
      hosts which support the TSC_ADJUST MSR (LP: #1671760)
    - Dropping: d/p/preup-tools-fix-linear-p2m-save.patch which is part
      of the stable update.
    - Additional security relevant changes:
      * XSA-207
        - memory leak when destroying guest without PT devices
    - Replacing the following security fixes with the versions from the
      stable update:
      * CVE-2016-6258 / XSA-182
        - x86: Privilege escalation in PV guests
      * CVE-2016-6259 / XSA-183
        - x86: Missing SMAP whitelisting in 32-bit exception / event delivery
      * CVE-2016-7092 / XSA-185
        - x86: Disallow L3 recursive pagetable for 32-bit PV guests
      * CVE-2016-7093 / XSA-186
        - x86: Mishandling of instruction pointer truncation during emulation
      * CVE-2016-7094 / XSA-187
        - x86 HVM: Overflow of sh_ctxt->seg_reg[]
      * CVE-2016-7777 / XSA-190
        - CR0.TS and CR0.EM not always honored for x86 HVM guests
      * CVE-2016-9386 / XSA-191
        - x86 null segments not always treated as unusable
      * CVE-2016-9382 / XSA-192
        - x86 task switch to VM86 mode mis-handled
      * CVE-2016-9385 / XSA-193
        - x86 segment base write emulation lacking canonical address checks
      * CVE-2016-9384 / XSA-194
        - guest 32-bit ELF symbol table load leaking host data
      * CVE-2016-9383 / XSA-195
        - x86 64-bit bit test instruction emulation broken
      * CVE-2016-9377, CVE-2016-9378 / XSA-196
        - x86 software interrupt injection mis-handled
      * CVE-2016-9379, CVE-2016-9380 / XSA-198
        - delimiter injection vulnerabilities in pygrub
      * CVE-2016-9932 / XSA-200
        - x86 CMPXCHG8B emulation fails to ignore operand size override
      * CVE-2016-9815, CVE-2016-9816, CVE-2016-9817, CVE-2016-9818 / XSA-201
        - ARM guests may induce host asynchronous abort
      * CVE-2016-10024 / XSA-202
        - x86 PV guests may be able to mask interrupts
      * CVE-2016-10025 / XSA-203
        - x86: missing NULL pointer check in VMFUNC emulation
      * CVE-2016-10013 / XSA-204
        - x86: Mishandling of SYSCALL singlestep during emulation
  * Copy contents of debian/build/install-utils_$(ARCH)/usr/sbin into
    debian/build/install-utils_$ARCH/usr/lib/xen-$(VERSION) (LP: #1396670).

Date: 2017-05-12 13:26:20.021367+00:00
Changed-By: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
Signed-By: Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers at canonical.com>
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xen/4.7.2-0ubuntu1.2
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