-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-2225 2013-02-10 03:50:33 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : xen Product : Fedora 18 Version : 4.2.1 Release : 7.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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: adjust gcc 4.8 fixes 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), fixes for gcc 4.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Feb 8 2013 Michael Young <[email protected]> - 4.2.1-7 - BuildRequires for texlive-kpathsea-bin wasn't needed - correct gcc 4.8 fixes and follow suggestions upstream * Tue Feb 5 2013 Michael Young <[email protected]> - 4.2.1-6 - 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] - add some fixes for code which gcc 4.8 complains about - additional BuildRequires are now needed for pod2text and pod2man also texlive-kpathsea-bin for mktexfmt * Wed Jan 23 2013 Michael Young <[email protected]> - correct disabling of xendomains.service on uninstall * Tue Jan 22 2013 Michael Young <[email protected]> - 4.2.1-5 - nested virtualization on 32-bit guest can crash host [XSA-34, CVE-2013-0151] also nested HVM on guest can cause host to run out of memory [XSA-35, CVE-2013-0152] (#902792) - restore status option to xend which is used by libvirt (#893699) * Thu Jan 17 2013 Michael Young <[email protected]> - 4.2.1-4 - Buffer overflow when processing large packets in qemu e1000 device driver [XSA-41, CVE-2012-6075] * Thu Jan 10 2013 Michael Young <[email protected]> - 4.2.1-3 - fix some format errors in xl.cfg.pod.5 to allow build on F19 * Wed Jan 9 2013 Michael Young <[email protected]> - 4.2.1-2 - VT-d interrupt remapping source validation flaw [XSA-33, CVE-2012-5634] (#893568) - pv guests can crash xen when xen built with debug=y (included for completeness - Fedora builds have debug=n) [XSA-37, CVE-2013-0154] * Tue Dec 18 2012 Michael Young <[email protected]> - 4.2.1-1 - update to xen-4.2.1 - remove patches that are included in 4.2.1 - rebase xen.fedora.efi.build.patch * Thu Dec 13 2012 Richard W.M. Jones <[email protected]> - 4.2.0-7 - Rebuild for OCaml fix (RHBZ#877128). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #906323 - CVE-2013-0215 xen: oxenstored incorrect handling of certain Xenbus ring states https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=906323 [ 2 ] Bug #910903 - CVE-2013-0153 kernel: xen: interrupt remap entries shared and old ones not cleared on AMD IOMMUs https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910903 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
