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Fedora 22: Security Advisory for Xen ATAPI Permissions Issue

fedora
Calendar Grey October 14, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important patch for Fedora 22 focusing on ATAPI command access rights within the Xen virtual machine monitor. Key details encapsulated.
ide: fix ATAPI command permissions [CVE-2015-6855] (#1261792)

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

Update Information:

ide: fix ATAPI command permissions [CVE-2015-6855] (#1261792)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora issue permissions Xen ATAPI

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1260080 - CVE-2015-6855 Qemu: ide: divide by zero issue https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1260080

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 .

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Name: xen
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 4.5.1
Release: 10.fc22
URL: https://xenproject.org/
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora issue permissions Xen ATAPI

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