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Fedora alert FEDORA-2013-11837 (xen)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: xen-4.2.2-10.fc19
Date:  Wed, 03 Jul 2013 03:31:03 +0000
Message-ID:  <20130703033102.424E22176C@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-11837 2013-06-27 15:28:57 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : xen Product : Fedora 19 Version : 4.2.2 Release : 10.fc19 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: XSA-45/CVE-2013-1918 breaks page reference counting let pygrub handle set default="${next_entry}" line in F19 libxl: Set vfb and vkb devid if not done so by the caller add upstream patch for PCI passthrough problems after XSA-46 xenstore permissions not set correctly by libxl [XSA-57] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Jun 26 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.2-10 - XSA-45/CVE-2013-1918 breaks page reference counting [XSA-58, CVE-2013-1432] (#978383) - let pygrub handle set default="${next_entry}" line in F19 (#978036) - libxl: Set vfb and vkb devid if not done so by the caller (#977987) * Mon Jun 24 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.2-9 - add upstream patch for PCI passthrough problems after XSA-46 (#977310) * Fri Jun 21 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.2-8 - xenstore permissions not set correctly by libxl [XSA-57, CVE-2013-2211] (#976779) * Fri Jun 14 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.2-7 - Revised fixes for [XSA-55, CVE-2013-2194 CVE-2013-2195 CVE-2013-2196] (#970640) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #974250 - CVE-2013-1432 kernel: xen: Page reference counting error due to XSA-45/CVE-2013-1918 fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974250 [ 2 ] Bug #971503 - CVE-2013-2211 xen: libxl allows guest write access to sensitive console related xenstore keys https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=971503 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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