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Posted on 23 August 2011
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TITLE:
SUSE update for xen
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA45704
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-08-23
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DESCRIPTION:
SUSE has issued an update for xen. This fixes a vulnerability, which
can be exploited by malicious, local users in a guest virtual machine
to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the Xen hypervisor
implementation and can be exploited to crash a guest virtual machine.
Note: This vulnerability only affects Intel x86 processors with
enabled Intel VT-x extension.
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the zypper package manager.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
SUSE-SU-2011:0925-1:
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/11336538
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