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Fedora alert FEDORA-2013-16357 (xen)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: xen-4.2.3-1.fc19
Date:  Thu, 19 Sep 2013 02:08:09 +0000
Message-ID:  <20130919020809.DECD622148@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-16357 2013-09-11 00:36:42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : xen Product : Fedora 19 Version : 4.2.3 Release : 1.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: update to xen-4.2.3 includes fix for "libxl partially sets up HVM passthrough even with disabled iommu" [XSA-61, CVE-2013-4329] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Sep 9 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.3-1 - update to xen-4.2.3 - remove included or unnecessary patches * 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 #1006298 - CVE-2013-4329 xen: libxl partially sets up HVM passthrough even with disabled iommu https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006298 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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