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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-15943
2015-09-21 10:46:44.371000
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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
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:

libxl fails to honour readonly flag on disks with qemu-xen [XSA-142 (possible
fix)]
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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
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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 2015-15943

September 21, 2015
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)]

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 .

Severity
Name : xen
Product : Fedora 23
Version : 4.5.1
Release : 8.fc23
URL : https://xenproject.org/
Summary : Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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