[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: xen-4.2.2-10.fc19

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-11837
2013-06-27 15:28:57
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Name        : xen
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 4.2.2
Release     : 10.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:

XSA-45/CVE-2013-1918 breaks page reference counting
let pygrub handle set default="${next_entry}" line in F19
libxl: Set vfb and vkb devid if not done so by the caller
add upstream patch for PCI passthrough problems after XSA-46
xenstore permissions not set correctly by libxl [XSA-57]
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ChangeLog:

* 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 #974250 - CVE-2013-1432 kernel: xen: Page reference counting error due to XSA-45/CVE-2013-1918 fixes
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974250
  [ 2 ] Bug #971503 - CVE-2013-2211 xen: libxl allows guest write access to sensitive console related xenstore keys
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=971503
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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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