[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: xen-4.4.1-2.fc21

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-10531
2014-09-10 01:59:41
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Name        : xen
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 4.4.1
Release     : 2.fc21
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

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Update Information:

Mishandling of uninitialised FIFO-based event channel control blocks [XSA-107, CVE-2014-6268]
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Sep  9 2014 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.4.1-2
- Mishandling of uninitialised FIFO-based event channel control blocks
	[XSA-107]
- delete a patch file that was dropped in the last update
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1140280 - CVE-2014-6268 kernel: xen: Mishandling of uninitialised FIFO-based event channel control blocks (xsa107)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1140280
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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/.

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