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Debian DSA-3041-1 Critical: Xen DoS, Escalation, Info Disclosure

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Calendar Grey October 1, 2014
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Enhance your Xen installations because of severe vulnerabilities resulting in denial-of-service and elevated privileges identified in Debian.
Multiple security issues have been discovered in the Xen virtualisation solution which may result in denial of service, information disclosure or privilege escalation
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Summary

Multiple security issues have been discovered in the Xen virtualisation
solution which may result in denial of service, information disclosure
or privilege escalation.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.1.4-3+deb7u3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your xen packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: xen
CVE ID: CVE-2013-2072 CVE-2014-7154 CVE-2014-7155 CVE-2014-7156

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