Bug 699996 (XSA-304, XSA-305)

Summary:	<app-emulation/xen-4.11.2-r2: multiple vulnerabilities (XSA-{304,305})
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot <glsamaker>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	hydrapolic, proxy-maint, xen
Priority:	Normal	Flags:	stable-bot: sanity-check+
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-305.html
Whiteboard:	B3 [glsa+ cve]
Package list:	app-emulation/xen-4.11.2-r2	Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	699992, 699994

Description GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2019-11-13 10:57:03 UTC

CVE-2019-11135 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11135):
  A flaw was found in the implementation of Intel Transactional
  Synchronization Extensions (TSX) abortion where a local authenticated
  attacker with the ability to monitor execution time is able to infer TSX
  memory state by comparing abort execution times.

Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2019-11-13 11:17:37 UTC

https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-304.html
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-305.html

Comment 2 Tomáš Mózes 2019-11-13 15:12:16 UTC

*** Bug 699990 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2019-11-14 12:30:21 UTC

amd64 stable.

Maintainer(s), please cleanup.
Security, please vote.

Comment 4 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2019-11-14 15:18:29 UTC

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=42d847bafda98ec12728acdd9bca716336ae248f

commit 42d847bafda98ec12728acdd9bca716336ae248f
Author:     Yixun Lan <dlan@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2019-11-14 15:17:01 +0000
Commit:     Yixun Lan <dlan@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2019-11-14 15:18:02 +0000

    app-emulation/xen: cleanup & drop vulnerable version
    
    Fix XSA-{304,305}
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/699996
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.78, Repoman-2.3.17
    Signed-off-by: Yixun Lan <dlan@gentoo.org>

 app-emulation/xen/Manifest             |   1 -
 app-emulation/xen/xen-4.11.2-r1.ebuild | 154 ---------------------------------
 2 files changed, 155 deletions(-)

Comment 5 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2020-03-25 20:36:18 UTC

Added to an existing GLSA.

Comment 6 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2020-03-25 20:48:09 UTC

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 202003-56 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-56
by GLSA coordinator Thomas Deutschmann (whissi).