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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-14361
2015-09-01 18:30:52.011678
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Name        : xen
Product     : Fedora 23
Version     : 4.5.1
Release     : 6.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:

Use after free in QEMU/Xen block unplug protocol [XSA-139, CVE-2015-5166] QEMU
leak of uninitialized heap memory in rtl8139 device model [XSA-140,
CVE-2015-5165]
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1248997 - CVE-2015-5166 Qemu: BlockBackend object use after free issue (XSA-139)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248997
  [ 2 ] Bug #1248760 - CVE-2015-5165 Qemu: rtl8139 uninitialized heap memory information leakage to guest (XSA-140)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248760
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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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https://fedoraproject.org/security/
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Fedora 23: xen Security Update

September 1, 2015
Use after free in QEMU/Xen block unplug protocol [XSA-139, CVE-2015-5166] QEMU leak of uninitialized heap memory in rtl8139 device model [XSA-140, CVE-2015-5165]

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

Update Information:

Use after free in QEMU/Xen block unplug protocol [XSA-139, CVE-2015-5166] QEMU leak of uninitialized heap memory in rtl8139 device model [XSA-140, CVE-2015-5165]

Change Log

References

[ 1 ] Bug #1248997 - CVE-2015-5166 Qemu: BlockBackend object use after free issue (XSA-139) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248997 [ 2 ] Bug #1248760 - CVE-2015-5165 Qemu: rtl8139 uninitialized heap memory information leakage to guest (XSA-140) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248760

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

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