xen (4.6.5-0ubuntu1.1) xenial-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: refactor putting response on wire
* oxenstored: remove some unused parameters
* oxenstored: refactor request processing
* oxenstored: keep track of each transaction's operations
* oxenstored: move functions that process simple operations
* oxenstored: replay transaction upon conflict
* oxenstored: log request and response during transaction replay
* oxenstored: allow compilation prior to OCaml 3.12.0
* 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
- XSA-215
* x86: correct create_bounce_frame
xen (4.6.5-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium
* Rebasing to upstream stable release 4.6.5 (LP: #1671864)
https://www.xenproject.org/downloads/xen-archives/xen-46-series.html
- Includes fix for booting 4.10 Linux kernels in HVM guests on Intel
hosts which support the TSC_ADJUST MSR (LP: #1671760)
- Additional security relevant changes:
* CVE-2013-2076 / XSA-052 (update)
- Information leak on XSAVE/XRSTOR capable AMD CPUs
* CVE-2016-7093 / XSA-186 (4.6.3 became vulnerable)
- x86: Mishandling of instruction pointer truncation during emulation
* XSA-207
- memory leak when destroying guest without PT devices
- Replacing the following security fixes with the versions from the
stable update:
* CVE-2015-7812 / XSA-145
- arm: Host crash when preempting a multicall
* CVE-2015-7813 / XSA-146
- arm: various unimplemented hypercalls log without rate limiting
* CVE-2015-7814 / XSA-147
- arm: Race between domain destruction and memory allocation decrease
* CVE-2015-7835 / XSA-148
- x86: Uncontrolled creation of large page mappings by PV guests
* CVE-2015-7969 / XSA-149, XSA-151
- leak of main per-domain vcpu pointer array
- x86: leak of per-domain profiling-related vcpu pointer array
* CVE-2015-7970 / XSA-150
- x86: Long latency populate-on-demand operation is not preemptible
* CVE-2015-7971 / XSA-152
- x86: some pmu and profiling hypercalls log without rate limiting
* CVE-2015-7972 / XSA-153
- x86: populate-on-demand balloon size inaccuracy can crash guests
* CVE-2016-2270 / XSA-154
- x86: inconsistent cachability flags on guest mappings
* CVE-2015-8550 / XSA-155
- paravirtualized drivers incautious about shared memory contents
* CVE-2015-5307, CVE-2015-8104 / XSA-156
- x86: CPU lockup during exception delivery
* CVE-2015-8338 / XSA-158
- long running memory operations on ARM
* CVE-2015-8339, CVE-2015-8340 / XSA-159
XENMEM_exchange error handling issues
* CVE-2015-8341 / XSA-160
- libxl leak of pv kernel and initrd on error
* CVE-2015-8555 / XSA-165
- information leak in legacy x86 FPU/XMM initialization
* XSA-166
- ioreq handling possibly susceptible to multiple read issue
* CVE-2016-1570 / XSA-167
- PV superpage functionality missing sanity checks
* CVE-2016-1571 / XSA-168
- VMX: intercept issue with INVLPG on non-canonical address
* CVE-2015-8615 / XSA-169
- x86: unintentional logging upon guest changing callback method
* CVE-2016-2271 / XSA-170
- VMX: guest user mode may crash guest with non-canonical RIP
* CVE-2016-3158, CVE-2016-3159 / XSA-172
- broken AMD FPU FIP/FDP/FOP leak workaround
* CVE-2016-3960 / XSA-173
- x86 shadow pagetables: address width overflow
* CVE-2016-4962 / XSA-175
- Unsanitised guest input in libxl device handling code
* CVE-2016-4480 / XSA-176
- x86 software guest page walk PS bit handling flaw
* CVE-2016-4963 / XSA-178
- Unsanitised driver domain input in libxl device handling
* CVE-2016-5242 / XSA-181
- arm: Host crash caused by VMID exhaustion
* 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-2016-7094 / 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-2016-9383 / 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
Date: 2017-05-12 11:57:33.983289+00:00
Changed-By: Stefan Bader <stefan.ba...@canonical.com>
Signed-By: Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauri...@canonical.com>
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xen/4.6.5-0ubuntu1.1
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