[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: xen-4.2.0-3.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-17135
2012-10-29 18:05:55
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Name        : xen
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 4.2.0
Release     : 3.fc18
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:

update to xen 4.2.0, limit the size of guest kernels and ramdisks to
avoid running out of memeory on dom0 during guest boot
[XSA-25, CVE-2012-4544] (#870414)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #870412 - CVE-2012-4544 xen: Xen domain builder Out-of-memory due to malicious kernel/ramdisk
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870412
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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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