[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: xen-4.1.2-24.fc17
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Sun Aug 5 21:26:27 UTC 2012
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-11182
2012-07-27 09:16:04
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Name : xen
Product : Fedora 17
Version : 4.1.2
Release : 24.fc17
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:
in rare circumstances an unprivileged user can crash an HVM guest
[XSA-10] (#843766), remove a dependency on PyXML and Require python-lxml
instead of PyXML (#842843)
adjust systemd service files not to report failures when running without
a hypervisor or when xendomains.service doesn't find anything to start
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ChangeLog:
* Thu Jul 26 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-24
- in rare circumstances an unprivileged user can crash an HVM guest [XSA-10]
* Tue Jul 24 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-23
- add a patch to remove a dependency on PyXML and Require python-lxml
instead of PyXML (#842843)
* Sun Jul 22 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-22
- adjust systemd service files not to report failures when running without
a hypervisor or when xendomains.service doesn't find anything to start
* Sun Jul 22 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 4.1.2-21
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue Jun 12 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-20
- Apply three security patches
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]
* Sat Jun 9 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-19
- adjust xend.service systemd file to avoid selinux problems
* Fri Jun 8 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-18
- Enable xenconsoled by default under systemd (#829732)
* Thu May 17 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-16 4.1.2-17
- make pygrub cope better with big files from guest (#818412 CVE-2012-2625)
- add patch from 4.1.3-rc2-pre to build on F17/8
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #843570 - CVE-2012-3432 kernel: xen: HVM guest user mode MMIO emulation DoS
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843570
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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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