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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-11182 (xen)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: xen-4.1.2-24.fc17
Date:  Sun, 05 Aug 2012 21:26:27 +0000
Message-ID:  <20120805212627.A2013212DB@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-11182 2012-07-27 09:16:04 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : xen Product : Fedora 17 Version : 4.1.2 Release : 24.fc17 URL : http://xen.org/ Summary : Xen is a virtual machine monitor Description : This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the Xen hypervisor -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: in rare circumstances an unprivileged user can crash an HVM guest [XSA-10] (#843766), remove a dependency on PyXML and Require python-lxml instead of PyXML (#842843) adjust systemd service files not to report failures when running without a hypervisor or when xendomains.service doesn't find anything to start -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Jul 26 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-24 - in rare circumstances an unprivileged user can crash an HVM guest [XSA-10] * Tue Jul 24 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-23 - add a patch to remove a dependency on PyXML and Require python-lxml instead of PyXML (#842843) * Sun Jul 22 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-22 - adjust systemd service files not to report failures when running without a hypervisor or when xendomains.service doesn't find anything to start * Sun Jul 22 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 4.1.2-21 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild * Tue Jun 12 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-20 - Apply three security patches 64-bit PV guest privilege escalation vulnerability [CVE-2012-0217] guest denial of service on syscall/sysenter exception generation [CVE-2012-0218] PV guest host Denial of Service [CVE-2012-2934] * Sat Jun 9 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-19 - adjust xend.service systemd file to avoid selinux problems * Fri Jun 8 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-18 - Enable xenconsoled by default under systemd (#829732) * Thu May 17 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-16 4.1.2-17 - make pygrub cope better with big files from guest (#818412 CVE-2012-2625) - add patch from 4.1.3-rc2-pre to build on F17/8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #843570 - CVE-2012-3432 kernel: xen: HVM guest user mode MMIO emulation DoS https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843570 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update xen' 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 https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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