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Hotfix hf7611

This hotfix resolves the following Xen Security Advisories:

  1. XSA-6 XSA-6 HVM e1000, buffer overflow.
  2. XSA-7 64-bit PV guest privilege escalation vulnerability.
  3. XSA-8 Guest denial of service on syscall/sysenter exception generation.
  4. XSA-9 PV guest host Denial of Service.
  5. XSA-11 HVM guest destroy p2m teardown host DoS vulnerability.
  6. XSA-12 Hypercall set_debugreg vulnerability.
  7. XSA-13 Hypercall physdev_get_free_pirq vulnerability.
  8. XSA-14 XENMEM_populate_physmap DoS vulnerability.
  9. XSA-16 PHYSDEVOP_map_pirq index vulnerability.
  10. XSA-17 Qemu VT100 emulation vulnerability.
  11. XSA-19 Guest administrator can access qemu monitor console.

hf7611 is a mandatory hotfix for CA AppLogic® 3.0.30/3.1.14/3.5.x. This hotfix replaces files on the servers of the grid. Therefore, a grid reboot is required after applying this hotfix. If this hotfix is installed on a grid and afterward a new server is added to the grid, this hotfix is automatically installed on the newly added server. However, the newly added server must be rebooted for the hotfix to take effect. If a Xen-based grid is created and hf7611 is installed during the grid creation process, the grid needs to be rebooted after the grid creation has completed in order for the hotfix to take effect.