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Fedora alert FEDORA-2007-343 (xen)

From:  "Daniel Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora Core 6 Update: xen-3.0.3-8.fc6
Date:  Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:58:48 -0400

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-343 2007-03-19 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 6 Name : xen Version : 3.0.3 Release : 8.fc6 Summary : Xen is a virtual machine monitor Description : This package contains the Xen hypervisor and Xen tools, needed to run virtual machines on x86 systems, together with the kernel-xen* packages. Information on how to use Xen can be found at the Xen project pages. Virtualisation can be used to run multiple versions or multiple Linux distributions on one system, or to test untrusted applications in a sandboxed environment. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: A flaw was found affecting the VNC server code in QEMU. On a fullyvirtualized guest VM, where qemu monitor mode is enabled, a user who had access to the VNC server could gain the ability to read arbitrary files as root in the host filesystem. (CVE-2007-0998) --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Wed Mar 14 2007 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> - 3.0.3-8.fc6 - Disable access to QEMU monitor over VNC (CVE-2007-0998, bz 230295) * Tue Mar 6 2007 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> - 3.0.3-7.fc6 - Ensure PVFB daemon terminates if domain doesn't startup (bz 230634) - Fix ia64 shadow page table mode - Close QEMU file handles when running network script --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/u... 1741f962baeb775c9e2519b18aa44e2831c0585f SRPMS/xen-3.0.3-8.fc6.src.rpm 1741f962baeb775c9e2519b18aa44e2831c0585f noarch/xen-3.0.3-8.fc6.src.rpm c384423104620e719c2ae8fa2947ede9f675d4f7 x86_64/debug/xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-8.fc6.x86_64.rpm 9f865fd4ed56c4d35382c51bd00e2019156184c5 x86_64/xen-3.0.3-8.fc6.x86_64.rpm 4b458e342a7a6e54ee4260b2cfe5fa30eceda74f x86_64/xen-libs-3.0.3-8.fc6.x86_64.rpm 1485f0bbde1c4f9cbe5fd591806007409cdc9e5c x86_64/xen-devel-3.0.3-8.fc6.x86_64.rpm e2cac6874e958ec27d6167b23171121b3df08ae9 i386/debug/xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-8.fc6.i386.rpm 435e65f7dd61f4164200f27d72f989571578c288 i386/xen-libs-3.0.3-8.fc6.i386.rpm 6a01404d96baaae8ca45dcd35bc2af6b61dd6f08 i386/xen-devel-3.0.3-8.fc6.i386.rpm 200dc86cf82dc8a7efa6144d037bb52928adf773 i386/xen-3.0.3-8.fc6.i386.rpm This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/. --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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