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Posted on 04 March 2018
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-4131-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
March 04, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : xen
CVE ID : CVE-2018-7540 CVE-2018-7541 CVE-2018-7542
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor:
CVE-2018-7540
Jann Horn discovered that missing checks in page table freeing may
result in denial of service.
CVE-2018-7541
Jan Beulich discovered that incorrect error handling in grant table
checks may result in guest-to-host denial of service and potentially
privilege escalation.
CVE-2018-7542
Ian Jackson discovered that insufficient handling of x86 PVH guests
without local APICs may result in guest-to-host denial of service.
For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.8.3+comet2+shim4.10.0+comet3-1+deb9u5.
We recommend that you upgrade your xen packages.
For the detailed security status of xen please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/xen
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
