Fedora 21: xen Security Update 2015-15946
Summary
This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line
tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the
Xen hypervisor
Update Information:
libxl fails to honour readonly flag on disks with qemu-xen [XSA-142 (possible fix)] ---- update to xen-4.4.3, including Use after free in QEMU/Xen block unplug protocol [XSA-139, CVE-2015-5166], QEMU leak of uninitialized heap memory in rtl8139 device model [XSA-140, CVE-2015-5165]
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1248997 - CVE-2015-5166 Qemu: BlockBackend object use after free issue (XSA-139) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248997 [ 2 ] Bug #1248760 - CVE-2015-5165 Qemu: rtl8139 uninitialized heap memory information leakage to guest (XSA-140) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248760
Update Instructions
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 .