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Fedora 23: 2016-35d7b09908 Critical: Xen and QEMU Buffer Flaws

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Calendar Grey April 30, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Keep updated regarding recent security patches for Fedora 23, focusing on serious vulnerabilities in the Xen virtualization framework.
x86 shadow pagetables: address width overflow [XSA-173, CVE-2016-3960] Qemu: net: buffer overflow in stellaris_enet emulator [CVE-2016-4001] Qemu: net: buffer overflow in MIPSnet e...

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 shadow pagetables: address width overflow [XSA-173, CVE-2016-3960] Qemu: net: buffer overflow in stellaris_enet emulator [CVE-2016-4001] Qemu: net: buffer overflow in MIPSnet emulator [CVE-2016-4002] qemu: Infinite loop vulnerability in usb_ehci using siTD process [CVE-2016-4037]

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical Fedora QEMU Xen

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1323955 - CVE-2016-3960 xsa173 xen: x86 shadow pagetables: address width overflow (XSA-173) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1323955 [ 2 ] Bug #1325884 - CVE-2016-4001 Qemu: net: buffer overflow in stellaris_enet emulator https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1325884 [ 3 ] Bug #1326082 - CVE-2016-4002 Qemu: net: buffer overflow in MIPSnet emulator https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326082 [ 4 ] Bug #1325129 - CVE-2016-4037 Qemu: usb: Infinite loop vulnerability in usb_ehci using siTD process https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1325129

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 23
Version: 4.5.3
Release: 2.fc23
URL: https://xenproject.org/
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical Fedora QEMU Xen

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