[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: xen-4.1.5-2.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-7432
2013-05-05 01:37:34
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Name        : xen
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 4.1.5
Release     : 2.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:

PV guests can use non-preemptible long latency operations to mount a
denial of service attack on the whole system [XSA-45, CVE-2013-1918],
malicious guests can inject interrupts through bridge devices to mount a
denial of service attack on the whole system [XSA-49, CVE-2013-1952]
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ChangeLog:

* Thu May  2 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.5-2
- PV guests can use non-preemptible long latency operations to
  mount a denial of service attack on the whole system
  [XSA-45, CVE-2013-1918] (#958918)
- malicious guests can inject interrupts through bridge devices to
  mount a denial of service attack on the whole system
  [XSA-49, CVE-2013-1952] (#958919)
* Thu Apr 25 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.5-1
- update to xen-4.1.5
  includes fixes for
  passed through IRQs or PCI devices might allow denial of service attack
    [XSA-46, CVE-2013-1919] (#953568)
  SYSENTER in 32-bit PV guests on 64-bit xen can crash hypervisor
    [XSA-44, CVE-2013-1917] (#953569)
  grant releases can release more than intended potentially crashing xen
    [XSA-50, CVE-2013-1964] (#953632)
- remove patches that are included in 4.1.5
- allow xendomains to work with xl saved images
* Thu Apr  4 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.4-7
- make xendomains systemd script executable (#919705)
- Potential use of freed memory in event channel operations [XSA-47,
  CVE-2013-1920]
* Fri Feb 22 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.4-6
- patch for [XSA-36, CVE-2013-0153] can cause boot time crash
- backport the fixes discovered when building with gcc 4.8
* Fri Feb 15 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.4-5
- patch for [XSA-38, CVE-2013-0215] was flawed
* Wed Feb  6 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.4-4
- guest using oxenstored can crash host or exhaust memory [XSA-38,
  CVE-2013-0215] (#907888)
- guest using AMD-Vi for PCI passthrough can cause denial of service
  [XSA-36, CVE-2013-0153] (#910914)
* Thu Jan 17 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.4-3
- Buffer overflow when processing large packets in qemu e1000 device
  driver [XSA-41, CVE-2012-6075] (#910845)
- fix a bug introduced by fix for XSA-27
* Fri Jan 11 2013 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.4-2
- VT-d interrupt remapping source validation flaw [XSA-33,
    CVE-2012-5634] (#893568)
* Tue Dec 18 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.4-1
- update to xen-4.1.4
- remove patches that are included in 4.1.4
* Tue Dec  4 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.3-7
- 6 security fixes
  A guest can cause xen to crash [XSA-26, CVE-2012-5510] (#883082)
  An HVM guest can cause xen to run slowly or crash [XSA-27, CVE-2012-5511]
    (#883084)
  An HVM guest can cause xen to crash or leak information [XSA-28,
    CVE-2012-5512] (#883085)
  A PV guest can cause xen to crash and might be able escalate privileges
    [XSA-29, CVE-2012-5513] (#883088)
  An HVM guest can cause xen to hang [XSA-30, CVE-2012-5514] (#883091)
  A guest can cause xen to hang [XSA-31, CVE-2012-5515] (#883092)
* Tue Nov 13 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.3-6
- 5 security fixes
  A guest can block a cpu by setting a bad VCPU deadline [XSA 20,
    CVE-2012-4535] (#876198)
  HVM guest can use invalid pirq values to crash xen [XSA 21, CVE-2012-4536]
    (#876200)
  HVM guest can exhaust p2m table crashing xen [XSA 22, CVE-2012-4537] (#876203)
  PAE HVM guest can crash hypervisor [XSA-23, CVE-2012-4538] (#876205)
  32-bit PV guest on 64-bit hypervisor can cause an hypervisor infinite
    loop [XSA-24, CVE-2012-4539] (#876207)
* Sun Oct 28 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.3-5
- limit the size of guest kernels and ramdisks to avoid running out
  of memory on dom0 during guest boot [XSA-25, CVE-2012-4544] (#870414)
- remove pygrub.size.limits.patch patch included in new patch
* Thu Sep  6 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.3-4
- disable qemu monitor by default [XSA-19, CVE-2012-4411] (#855141)
* Wed Sep  5 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.3-3
- 5 security fixes
  a malicious 64-bit PV guest can crash the dom0 [XSA-12, CVE-2012-3494]
    (#854585)
  a malicious crash might be able to crash the dom0 or escalate privileges
    [XSA-13, CVE-2012-3495] (#854589)
  a malicious PV guest can crash the dom0 [XSA-14, CVE-2012-3496] (#854590)
  a malicious HVM guest can crash the dom0 and might be able to read
    hypervisor or guest memory [XSA-16, CVE-2012-3498] (#854593)
  an HVM guest could use VT100 escape sequences to escalate privileges to
    that of the qemu process [XSA-17, CVE-2012-3515] (#854599)
* Fri Aug 10 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.3-1 4.1.3-2
- update to 4.1.3
  includes fix for untrusted HVM guest can cause the dom0 to hang or
    crash [XSA-11, CVE-2012-3433] (#843582)
- remove patches that are now upstream
- remove some unnecessary compile fixes
- adjust upstream-23936:cdb34816a40a-rework for backported fix for
    upstream-23940:187d59e32a58
- replace pygrub.size.limits.patch with upstreamed version
- fix for (#845444) broke xend under systemd
* Tue Aug  7 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-25
- remove some unnecessary cache flushing that slow things down
- change python options on xend to reduce selinux problems (#845444)
* 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,CVE-2012-3432] (#843766)
* 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 #956163 - CVE-2013-1918 kernel: xen: Several long latency operations are not preemptible
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956163
  [ 2 ] Bug #956309 - CVE-2013-1952 kernel: xen: VT-d interrupt remapping source validation flaw for bridges
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956309
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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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