🛡️ SUSE-SU-2021:2923-1 — xen (CVE-2021-28693 +10 more)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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Description

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

Update to Xen 4.13.3 general bug fix release (bsc#1027519).

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2021-28693: xen/arm: Boot modules are not scrubbed (bsc#1186428)
  • CVE-2021-28692: xen: inappropriate x86 IOMMU timeout detection / handling (bsc#1186429)
  • CVE-2021-0089: xen: Speculative Code Store Bypass (bsc#1186433)
  • CVE-2021-28690: xen: x86: TSX Async Abort protections not restored after S3 (bsc#1186434)
  • CVE-2021-28694,CVE-2021-28695,CVE-2021-28696: IOMMU page mapping issues on x86 (XSA-378)(bsc#1189373).
  • CVE-2021-28697: grant table v2 status pages may remain accessible after de-allocation (XSA-379)(bsc#1189376).
  • CVE-2021-28698: long running loops in grant table handling (XSA-380)(bsc#1189378).
  • CVE-2021-28699: inadequate grant-v2 status frames array bounds check (XSA-382)(bsc#1189380).
  • CVE-2021-28700: No memory limit for dom0less domUs (XSA-383)(bsc#1189381).

Other issues fixed:

  • Fixed 'Panic on CPU 0: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work!' (bsc#1180491)
  • Fixed an issue with xencommons, where file format expecations by fillup did not allign (bsc#1185682)
  • Fixed shell macro expansion in the spec file, so that ExecStart=

in xendomains-wait-disks.service is created correctly (bsc#1183877)

  • Upstream bug fixes (bsc#1027519)
  • Fixed Xen SLES11SP4 guest hangs on cluster (bsc#1188050).
  • xl monitoring process exits during xl save -p|-c keep the monitoring process running to cleanup the domU during shutdown (bsc#1176189).
  • Dom0 hangs when pinning CPUs for dom0 with HVM guest (bsc#1179246).
  • Some long deprecated commands were finally removed in qemu6. Adjust libxl to use supported commands (bsc#1183243).
  • Update logrotate.conf, move global options into per-file sections to prevent globbering of global state (bsc#1187406).
  • Prevent superpage allocation in the LAPIC and ACPI_INFO range (bsc#1189882).

Affected software

SUSE-SU-2021:2923-1 is recorded against 1 package.

  • xen (fixed in 4.14.2_04-3.9.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 2 September 2021 and last revised on 2 May 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2021-09-02
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2025-05-02
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
xen 4.14.2_04-3.9.1

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