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Ubuntu: Security Notice USN-2636-1 for Xen DoS Vulnerabilities

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Calendar Grey March 1, 2013
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Uncover the most recent security patches for Xen within Debian, tackling various remote vulnerabilities and safeguarding system stability.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following
problems:

CVE-2012-4544

Insufficient validation of kernel or ramdisk sizes in the Xen PV
domain builder could result in denial of service.

CVE-2012-5511

Several HVM control operations performed insufficient validation of
input, which could result in denial of service through resource
exhaustion.

CVE-2012-5634

Incorrect interrupt handling when using VT-d hardware could result
in denial of service.

CVE-2013-0153

Insufficient restriction of interrupt access could result in denial
of service.


For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.0.1-5.7.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.1.4-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.1.4-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your xen packages.

Further information about...

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Package: xen
CVE ID: CVE-2012-4544 CVE-2012-5511 CVE-2012-5634 CVE-2013-0153

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