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Fedora 22: 2016-f8121efdac Critical: Xen Guest Mapping Issues

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Calendar Grey March 6, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential patches tackling disparities in visitor configurations and possible failures in Fedora 22 for xen. Keep informed!
x86: inconsistent cachability flags on guest mappings [XSA-154, CVE-2016-2270] (#1309324) VMX: guest user mode may crash guest with non-canonical RIP [XSA-170, CVE-2016-2271] (#130...

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: inconsistent cachability flags on guest mappings [XSA-154, CVE-2016-2270] (#1309324) VMX: guest user mode may crash guest with non-canonical RIP [XSA-170, CVE-2016-2271] (#1309323)

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security advisory critical issue security update Fedora crash risk Xen guest mapping

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1304627 - CVE-2016-2270 xsa154 xen: inconsistent cachability flags on guest mappings (XSA-154) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1304627 [ 2 ] Bug #1304628 - CVE-2016-2271 xsa170 xen: guest user mode may crash guest with non-canonical RIP (XSA-170) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1304628

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue security update Fedora crash risk Xen guest mapping

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