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Fedora: DSA-5140-3 Critical: QEMU Security Flaw and Service Disruption

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A number of vulnerabilities in Xen may result in privilege elevation, denial of service, or data leaks. Resolve these by applying the most recent patches.
Multiple security issues have been discovered in the Xen virtualisation solution which may result in denial of service, information disclosure or privilege escalation

Summary

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

CVE-2014-8594

Roger Pau Monne and Jan Beulich discovered that incomplete
restrictions on MMU update hypercalls may result in privilege
escalation.

CVE-2014-8595

Jan Beulich discovered that missing privilege level checks in the
x86 emulation of far branches may result in privilege escalation.

CVE-2014-8866

Jan Beulich discovered that an error in compatibility mode hypercall
argument translation may result in denial of service.

CVE-2014-8867

Jan Beulich discovered that an insufficient restriction in
acceleration support for the "REP MOVS" instruction may result in
denial of service.

CVE-2014-9030

Andrew Cooper discovered a page reference leak in MMU_MACHPHYS_UPDATE
handling, resulting in denial of service.

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

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Package: xen
CVE ID: CVE-2014-8594 CVE-2014-8595 CVE-2014-8866 CVE-2014-8867

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