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Calendar Grey September 21, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 23 receives a Xen security patch that resolves problems linked to read-only disk attributes, in conjunction with the resolution for XSA-142.
libxl fails to honour readonly flag on disks with qemu-xen [XSA-142 (possible fix)]

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

Update Information:

libxl fails to honour readonly flag on disks with qemu-xen [XSA-142 (possible fix)]

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Fedora Xen read-only issue

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1257893 - Guests on Fedora22 Xen host are able to write to read-only disks with full device emulation type. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257893

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: 4.5.1
Release: 8.fc23
URL: https://xenproject.org/
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Fedora Xen read-only issue

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