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Fedora 22: 2015-efc1d7ba5e Critical: Xen Buffer Overflow and Loop Errors

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Calendar Grey October 4, 2015
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Crucial Fedora release addresses multiple security flaws including memory overflow and endless looping in Xen virtual environments.
ui/vnc: limit client_cut_text msg payload size [CVE-2015-5239] (#1259504), e1000: Avoid infinite loop in processing transmit descriptor [CVE-2015-6815] (#1260224), net: add checks ...

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

Update Information:

ui/vnc: limit client_cut_text msg payload size [CVE-2015-5239] (#1259504), e1000: Avoid infinite loop in processing transmit descriptor [CVE-2015-6815] (#1260224), net: add checks to validate ring buffer pointers [CVE-2015-5279] (#1263278), net: avoid infinite loop when receiving packets [CVE-2015-5278] (#1263281), qemu buffer overflow in virtio-serial [CVE-2015-5745] (#1251354)

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1257735 - CVE-2015-5239 qemu-kvm: Integer overflow in vnc_client_read() and protocol_client_msg() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257735 [ 2 ] Bug #1260076 - CVE-2015-6815 qemu: net: e1000: infinite loop issue https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1260076 [ 3 ] Bug #1256672 - CVE-2015-5279 qemu: Heap overflow vulnerability in ne2000_receive() function https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1256672 [ 4 ] Bug #1256661 - CVE-2015-5278 qemu: Infinite loop in ne2000_receive() function https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1256661 [ 5 ] Bug #1251157 - CVE-2015-5745 kernel: qemu buffer overflow in virtio-serial https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1251157

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: 9.fc22
URL: https://xenproject.org/
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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