[Oraclevm-errata] OVMSA-2015-0031 Important: Oracle VM 3.3 xen security update
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Wed Mar 11 09:03:33 PDT 2015
Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2015-0031
The following updated rpms for Oracle VM 3.3 have been uploaded to the
Unbreakable Linux Network:
x86_64:
xen-4.3.0-55.el6.22.12.x86_64.rpm
xen-tools-4.3.0-55.el6.22.12.x86_64.rpm
SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/oraclevm/server/3.3/SRPMS-updates/xen-4.3.0-55.el6.22.12.src.rpm
Description of changes:
[4.3.0-55.el6.22.12]
- x86emul: fully ignore segment override for register-only operations
For ModRM encoded instructions with register operands we must not
overwrite ea.mem.seg (if a - bogus in that case - segment override was
present) as it aliases with ea.reg.
This is CVE-2015-2151 / XSA-123.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich at suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Deegan <tim at xen.org>
Reviewed-by: Keir Fraser <keir at xen.org>
Acked-by: Chuck Anderson <chuck.anderson at oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: John Haxby <john.haxby at oracle.com> [bug 20659547]
{CVE-2015-2151}
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