[Oraclevm-errata] OVMSA-2022-0003 Important: Oracle VM 3 Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) xen security update

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Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2022-0003

The following updated rpms for Oracle VM 3 Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
xen-4.4.4-222.0.45.el6.x86_64.rpm
xen-tools-4.4.4-222.0.45.el6.x86_64.rpm



Related CVEs:

CVE-2017-17044
CVE-2017-17045
CVE-2021-28706
CVE-2021-28705
CVE-2021-28709




Description of changes:

[4.4.4-222.0.45.el6]
- BUILDINFO: OVMF commit=173bf5c847e3ca8b42c11796ce048d8e2e916ff8
- BUILDINFO: xen commit=372b8932eb419e9c9b316724d2e4a28c396db6e0
- BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=8bff6989bd0bafcc0ddf859c23ce6a2ff21a80ff
- BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional commit=4a8ded640f04b41cdb15ce7c4c0a2c812c1b9e4d
- BUILDINFO: IPXE commit=9a93db3f0947484e30e753bbd61a10b17336e20e
- BUILDINFO: SeaBIOS commit=7d9cbe613694924921ed1a6f8947d711c5832eee
- x86/P2M: deal with partial success of p2m_set_entry() (Jan Beulich)  [Orabug: 33617682]  {CVE-2021-28705} {CVE-2021-28709}
- x86/p2m: add PoD accounting to set_typed_p2m_entry() (Jan Beulich)  [Orabug: 33617682]
- xen/page_alloc: Harden assign_pages() (Julien Grall)  [Orabug: 33617675]  {CVE-2021-28706}
- make domain_adjust_tot_pages() __must_check (Jan Beulich)  [Orabug: 33617675]
- p2m: Check return value of p2m_set_entry() when decreasing reservation (George Dunlap)  [Orabug: 31245546]  {CVE-2017-17045}
- p2m: Always check to see if removing a p2m entry actually worked (George Dunlap)  [Orabug: 31245546]  {CVE-2017-17045}
- x86/pod: prevent infinite loop when shattering large pages (Julien Grall)  [Orabug: 31241596]  {CVE-2017-17044}
- xen/physmap: Do not permit a guest to populate PoD pages for itself (Andrew Cooper)  [Orabug: 31241596]  {CVE-2017-17044}