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Fedora alert FEDORA-2013-11768 (xen)

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Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: xen-4.2.2-9.fc18
Date:  Sat, 06 Jul 2013 00:52:04 +0000
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-11768 2013-06-27 00:37:12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : xen Product : Fedora 18 Version : 4.2.2 Release : 9.fc18 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: add upstream patch for PCI passthrough problems after XSA-46 xenstore permissions not set correctly by libxl [XSA-57] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * 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] (#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) * Tue Jun 4 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.2-6 - Information leak on XSAVE/XRSTOR capable AMD CPUs [XSA-52, CVE-2013-2076] (#970206) - Hypervisor crash due to missing exception recovery on XRSTOR [XSA-53, CVE-2013-2077] (#970204) - Hypervisor crash due to missing exception recovery on XSETBV [XSA-54, CVE-2013-2078] (#970202) - Multiple vulnerabilities in libelf PV kernel handling [XSA-55] (#970640) * Fri May 17 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.2-5 - xend toolstack doesn't check bounds for VCPU affinity [XSA-56, CVE-2013-2072] (#964241) * Tue May 14 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.2-4 - xen-devel should require libuuid-devel (#962833) - pygrub menu items can include too much text (#958524) * Thu May 2 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.2-3 - PV guests can use non-preemptible long latency operations to mount a denial of service attack on the whole system [XSA-45, CVE-2013-1918] (#958918) - malicious guests can inject interrupts through bridge devices to mount a denial of service attack on the whole system [XSA-49, CVE-2013-1952] (#958919) * Fri Apr 26 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.2-2 - fix further man page issues to allow building on F19 and F20 * Thu Apr 25 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.2-1 - update to xen-4.2.2 includes fixes for [XSA-48, CVE-2013-1922] (Fedora doesn't use the affected code) passed through IRQs or PCI devices might allow denial of service attack [XSA-46, CVE-2013-1919] (#953568) SYSENTER in 32-bit PV guests on 64-bit xen can crash hypervisor [XSA-44, CVE-2013-1917] (#953569) - remove patches that are included in 4.2.2 - look for libxl-save-helper in the right place - fix xl list -l output when built with yajl2 - allow xendomains to work with xl saved images * Thu Apr 4 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.1-10 - make xendomains systemd script executable and update it from init.d version (#919705) - Potential use of freed memory in event channel operations [XSA-47, CVE-2013-1920] * Thu Feb 21 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.1-9 - patch for [XSA-36, CVE-2013-0153] can cause boot time crash * Fri Feb 15 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.1-8 - patch for [XSA-38, CVE-2013-0215] was flawed * Fri Feb 8 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.1-7 - BuildRequires for texlive-kpathsea-bin wasn't needed - correct gcc 4.8 fixes and follow suggestions upstream * Tue Feb 5 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.1-6 - guest using oxenstored can crash host or exhaust memory [XSA-38, CVE-2013-0215] (#907888) - guest using AMD-Vi for PCI passthrough can cause denial of service [XSA-36, CVE-2013-0153] (#910914) - add some fixes for code which gcc 4.8 complains about - additional BuildRequires are now needed for pod2text and pod2man also texlive-kpathsea-bin for mktexfmt * Wed Jan 23 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - correct disabling of xendomains.service on uninstall * Tue Jan 22 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.1-5 - nested virtualization on 32-bit guest can crash host [XSA-34, CVE-2013-0151] also nested HVM on guest can cause host to run out of memory [XSA-35, CVE-2013-0152] (#902792) - restore status option to xend which is used by libvirt (#893699) * Thu Jan 17 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.1-4 - Buffer overflow when processing large packets in qemu e1000 device driver [XSA-41, CVE-2012-6075] (#910845) * Thu Jan 10 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.1-3 - fix some format errors in xl.cfg.pod.5 to allow build on F19 * Wed Jan 9 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.1-2 - VT-d interrupt remapping source validation flaw [XSA-33, CVE-2012-5634] (#893568) - pv guests can crash xen when xen built with debug=y (included for completeness - Fedora builds have debug=n) [XSA-37, CVE-2013-0154] * Tue Dec 18 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.1-1 - update to xen-4.2.1 - remove patches that are included in 4.2.1 - rebase xen.fedora.efi.build.patch * Thu Dec 13 2012 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 4.2.0-7 - Rebuild for OCaml fix (RHBZ#877128). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] 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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