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Fedora 23: 2016-e5432ca977 Critical: AMD FPU Workaround Problem

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Calendar Grey April 9, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Fedora 23 update for Xen 4.5.3 addresses malfunctioning AMD FPU concerns and outlines important security enhancements.
update to 4.5.3 ---- broken AMD FPU FIP/FDP/FOP leak workaround [XSA-172, CVE-2016-3158, CVE-2016-3159]

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

Update Information:

update to 4.5.3 ---- broken AMD FPU FIP/FDP/FOP leak workaround [XSA-172, CVE-2016-3158, CVE-2016-3159]

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical Fedora workaround Xen FPU fix

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1317969 - CVE-2016-3158 CVE-2016-3159 xen: AMD FPU FIP/FDP/FOP leak workaround broken (XSA-172) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1317969

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: 1.fc23
URL: https://xenproject.org/
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical Fedora workaround Xen FPU fix

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