Xen Critical vulnerability CVE-2015-7835 unpatched in Opensuse/Xen packages

PGNet Dev <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Oct 2015 17:30:08 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.security
Message-ID <[email protected]>
(posted this already to opensuse-virtual ML; was suggested that I post 
it here as well)

I run latest Xen from d.o.o's Virtualization/openSUSE_13.2 repo

	rpm -qa | grep -i ^xen | sort
		xen-4.5.1_10-390.1.x86_64
		xen-libs-4.5.1_10-390.1.x86_64
		xen-tools-4.5.1_10-390.1.x86_64

Xen's now made public it's latest critical advisory

	http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/10/xen-patches-7-year-old-bug-that-shattered-hypervisor-security/
		"Xen patches 7-year-old bug that shattered hypervisor security.
		Critical vulnerability allowed some guests to access underlying 
operating system."

	http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-148.html
		Advisory 	XSA-148
		Public release 	2015-10-29 11:59
		...
		CVE(s) 	CVE-2015-7835
		Title 	x86: Uncontrolled creation of large page mappings by PV guests

The advisory instructs patching to resolve

	RESOLUTION
	==========

	Applying the appropriate attached patch resolves this issue.

	xsa148.patch                 xen-unstable, Xen 4.6.x
	xsa148-4.5.patch             Xen 4.5.x
	xsa148-4.4.patch             Xen 4.4.x, Xen 4.3.x

Checking installed Xen's changelog

	rpm -q --changelog xen | egrep "CVE-2015-7835|xsa148"
		(empty)

it's not been applied. Or, afaict from obs, even submitted.

Where's this security patch in the package tree?
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