[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: xen-4.3.1-1.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-20517
2013-11-02 19:52:09
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Name        : xen
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 4.3.1
Release     : 1.fc20
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-4.3.1,
Lock order reversal between page allocation and grant table lock
ocaml xenstored mishandles oversized message replies
systemd changes to allow oxenstored to be used instead of xenstored
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1017875 - CVE-2013-4416 xen: ocaml xenstored mishandles oversized message replies (XSA-72)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1017875
  [ 2 ] Bug #1026243 - CVE-2013-4494 kernel: xen: Lock order reversal between page allocation and grant table locks
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1026243
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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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