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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-4604 (kvm)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: kvm-60-6.fc8
Date:  Thu, 29 May 2008 02:49:33 +0000
Message-ID:  <200805290249.m4T2mrYT005066@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-4604 2008-05-28 22:52:23 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : kvm Product : Fedora 8 Version : 60 Release : 6.fc8 URL : http://kvm.sf.net Summary : Kernel-based Virtual Machine Description : KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware. Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified Linux or Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualized hardware: a network card, disk, graphics adapter, etc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue May 27 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> - 60-6.fc8 - Fix Cirrus heap overflow vulnerability (#448524) * Fri May 23 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> - 60-5.fc8 - Put PTY in rawmode * Fri May 16 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> - 60-4.fc8 - Fix problem with cirrus device that was breaking vnc connections (rhbz #446830) * Wed Feb 27 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> - 60-3.fc8 - Fix block device checks for extendable disk formats (rhbz #434978) * Sat Feb 23 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> - 60-2.fc8 - Fix block device extents check (rhbz #433560) * Thu Jan 31 2008 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - We don't need e2fsprogs-devel to build anymore (#331871) * Thu Jan 24 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> - 60-1.fc9 - Updated to kvm-60 - Fix license tag to keep rpmlint quiet - Remove unused PPC, Sparc and PPC Video BIOS * Tue Jan 15 2008 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>: - 59-1 - add upstream patch to fix VMs that no longer boot (#427317) - update to kvm-59 * Thu Dec 27 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 58-2 - Fix up defaults patch to apply * Thu Dec 27 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 58-1 - Update to kvm-58 * Thu Dec 13 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 56-1 - Update to kvm-56 * Tue Dec 4 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 55-1 - Update to kvm-55 * Mon Dec 3 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 54-1 - update to kvm-54 * Tue Nov 20 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 53-1 - update to kvm-53 * Wed Nov 7 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 51-1 - update to kvm-51 * Tue Nov 6 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 50-1 - update to kvm-50, drop all the patches that have gone upstream -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #237342 - CVE-2007-1320 xen/qemu Cirrus LGD-54XX "bitblt" Heap Overflow https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237342 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update kvm' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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