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Fedora 23: 2016-7b2e31a1c5 critical: Kernel memory leak vulnerability

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Calendar Grey November 21, 2015
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Important patch for Fedora 22 to resolve CPU hang issues occurring during exception handling in Xen virtual environments.
x86: CPU lockup during exception delivery [XSA-156, CVE-2015-5307, CVE-2015-8104] ---- update to 4.5.2

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

Update Information:

x86: CPU lockup during exception delivery [XSA-156, CVE-2015-5307, CVE-2015-8104] ---- update to 4.5.2

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora DoS Xen CPU lockup

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1277172 - CVE-2015-5307 virt: guest to host DoS by triggering an infinite loop in microcode via #AC exception https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1277172 [ 2 ] Bug #1278496 - CVE-2015-8104 virt: guest to host DoS by triggering an infinite loop in microcode via #DB exception https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1278496

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: 4.5.2
Release: 2.fc22
URL: https://xenproject.org/
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora DoS Xen CPU lockup

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