Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-9399 (xen)
| From: | updates@fedoraproject.org | |
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| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: xen-4.1.2-8.fc16 | |
| Date: | Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:42:08 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <20120626004210.0275A21469@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-9399 2012-06-14 23:38:06 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : xen Product : Fedora 16 Version : 4.1.2 Release : 8.fc16 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: make pygrub cope better with big files from guest (#818412 CVE-2012-2625), 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] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Jun 13 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-8 - make pygrub cope better with big files from guest (#818412 CVE-2012-2625) - 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] * Tue May 8 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-7 - Make the udev tap rule more specific as it breaks openvpn (#819452) - load xen-acpi-processor module (kernel 3.4 onwards) if present * Thu Feb 2 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-6 - Fix buffer overflow in e1000 emulation for HVM guests [CVE-2012-0029] * Sat Jan 28 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-5 - Start building xen's ocaml libraries if appropriate unless --without ocaml was specified - add some backported patches from xen unstable (via Debian) for some ocaml tidying and fixes * Sun Jan 15 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-4 - actually apply the xend-pci-loop.patch - compile fixes for gcc-4.7 * Wed Jan 11 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-3 - Add xend-pci-loop.patch to stop xend crashing with weird PCI cards (#767742) - avoid a backtrace if xend can't log to the standard file or a temporary directory (part of #741042) * Mon Nov 21 2011 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-2 - Fix lost interrupts on emulated devices - stop xend crashing if its state files are empty at start up - avoid a python backtrace if xend is run on bare metal - update grub2 configuration after the old hypervisor has gone - move blktapctrl to systemd - Drop obsolete dom0-kernel.repo file * Fri Oct 21 2011 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-1 - update to 4.1.2 remove upstream patches xen-4.1-testing.23104 and xen-4.1-testing.23112 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-...