[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: xen-4.2.3-8.fc19
updates at fedoraproject.org
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Thu Nov 21 04:37:38 UTC 2013
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-21041
2013-11-11 01:09:20
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Name : xen
Product : Fedora 19
Version : 4.2.3
Release : 8.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
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Update Information:
Host crash due to HVM guest VMX instruction execution
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ChangeLog:
* Sat Nov 9 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.3-8
- Host crash due to HVM guest VMX instruction execution
[XSA-75, CVE-2013-4551] (#1028599)
* Fri Nov 1 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.3-7
- Lock order reversal between page allocation and grant table locks
[XSA-73, CVE-2013-4494] (#1026248)
* Tue Oct 29 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.3-6
- ocaml xenstored mishandles oversized message replies
[XSA-72, CVE-2013-4416] (#1024450)
* Fri Oct 25 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.3-5
- systemd changes to allow oxenstored to be used instead of xenstored (#1022640)
* Thu Oct 10 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.3-4
- security fixes (#1017843)
Information leak through outs instruction emulation in 64-bit PV guests
[XSA-67, CVE-2013-4368]
possible null dereference when parsing vif ratelimiting info
[XSA-68, CVE-2013-4369]
misplaced free in ocaml xc_vcpu_getaffinity stub
[XSA-69, CVE-2013-4370]
use-after-free in libxl_list_cpupool under memory pressure
[XSA-70, CVE-2013-4371]
qemu disk backend (qdisk) resource leak (Fedora doesn't build this qemu)
[XSA-71, CVE-2013-4375]
* Wed Oct 2 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.3-3
- Set "Domain-0" label in xenstored.service systemd file to match
xencommons init.d script.
- security fixes (#1013748)
Information leaks to HVM guests through I/O instruction emulation
[XSA-63, CVE-2013-4355]
Information leak to HVM guests through fbld instruction emulation
[XSA-66, CVE-2013-4361]
* Wed Sep 25 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.3-2
- Information leak on AVX and/or LWP capable CPUs [XSA-62, CVE-2013-1442]
(#1012056)
* Mon Sep 9 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.3-1
- update to xen-4.2.3
includes fix for [XSA-61, CVE-2013-4329] libxl partially sets up HVM
passthrough even with disabled iommu
- remove included or unnecessary patches
* Wed Jun 26 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young at 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 at 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 at 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 at durham.ac.uk> - 4.2.2-7
- Revised fixes for [XSA-55, CVE-2013-2194 CVE-2013-2195
CVE-2013-2196] (#970640)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1028599 - CVE-2013-4551 xen: Host crash due to guest VMX instruction execution
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1028599
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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/.
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
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