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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-12679
2015-08-03 16:36:08
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Name        : xen
Product     : Fedora 23
Version     : 4.5.1
Release     : 5.fc23
URL         : https://xenproject.org/
Summary     : Xen is a virtual machine monitor
Description :
This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line
tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the
Xen hypervisor

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Update Information:

QEMU heap overflow flaw while processing certain ATAPI commands.
[XSA-138, CVE-2015-5154] (#1247142)
try again to fix xen-qemu-dom0-disk-backend.service (#1242246)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1243563 - CVE-2015-5154 qemu: ide: atapi: heap overflow during I/O buffer memory access
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243563
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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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Fedora 23: xen Security Update 2015-12679

August 10, 2015
QEMU heap overflow flaw while processing certain ATAPI commands

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

Update Information:

QEMU heap overflow flaw while processing certain ATAPI commands. [XSA-138, CVE-2015-5154] (#1247142) try again to fix xen-qemu-dom0-disk-backend.service (#1242246)

Change Log

References

[ 1 ] Bug #1243563 - CVE-2015-5154 qemu: ide: atapi: heap overflow during I/O buffer memory access https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243563

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 .

Severity
Name : xen
Product : Fedora 23
Version : 4.5.1
Release : 5.fc23
URL : https://xenproject.org/
Summary : Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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