[El-errata] OVMSA-2018-0246 Important: Oracle VM 3.4 xen security update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2018-0246

The following updated rpms for Oracle VM 3.4 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
xen-4.4.4-196.0.2.el6.x86_64.rpm
xen-tools-4.4.4-196.0.2.el6.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/oraclevm/server/3.4/SRPMS-updates/xen-4.4.4-196.0.2.el6.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[4.4.4-196.0.2.el6]
- BUILDINFO: OVMF commit=173bf5c847e3ca8b42c11796ce048d8e2e916ff8
- BUILDINFO: xen commit=02cec92b3eb1612e37616b10400d82f1e3d8de85
- BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=8bff6989bd0bafcc0ddf859c23ce6a2ff21a80ff
- BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional 
commit=346fdd7edd73f8287d0d0a2bab9c67b71bc6b8ba
- BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e
- BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee
- l1tf: Utility to offline/online SMT siblings. (Ross Philipson) 
[Orabug: 28487050]  {CVE-2018-3646}
- x86/spec-ctrl: Introduce an option to control L1D_FLUSH for HVM guests 
(Andrew Cooper)  [Orabug: 28487050]  {CVE-2018-3620} {CVE-2018-3646}
- x86/msr: Virtualise MSR_FLUSH_CMD for guests (Andrew Cooper)  [Orabug: 
28487050]  {CVE-2018-3646} {CVE-2018-3646}
- x86/spec-ctrl: CPUID/MSR definitions for L1D_FLUSH (Andrew Cooper) 
[Orabug: 28487050]  {CVE-2018-3646} {CVE-2018-3646}
- x86/spec-ctrl: Calculate safe PTE addresses for L1TF mitigations 
(Andrew Cooper)  [Orabug: 28487050]  {CVE-2018-3620} {CVE-2018-3646}
- x86: command line option to avoid use of secondary hyper-threads (Jan 
Beulich)  [Orabug: 28487050]  {CVE-2018-3646}
- cpupools: fix state when downing a CPU failed (Jan Beulich)  [Orabug: 
28487050]  {CVE-2018-3646}