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Fedora 23 FEDORA-2016-e48f4bd14f Critical: Xen Security Issues

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Calendar Grey February 26, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Fedora 23 upgrade resolves vulnerabilities in xen, tackling problems like mismatched caching parameters and virtual machine failures. Discover further details within.
x86: inconsistent cachability flags on guest mappings [XSA-154, CVE-2016-2270] (#1309324) VMX: guest user mode may crash guest with non-canonical RIP [XSA-170, CVE-2016-2271] (#130...

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: inconsistent cachability flags on guest mappings [XSA-154, CVE-2016-2270] (#1309324) VMX: guest user mode may crash guest with non-canonical RIP [XSA-170, CVE-2016-2271] (#1309323)

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security advisory fedora critical xen x86 cachability

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1304627 - CVE-2016-2270 xsa154 xen: inconsistent cachability flags on guest mappings (XSA-154) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1304627 [ 2 ] Bug #1304628 - CVE-2016-2271 xsa170 xen: guest user mode may crash guest with non-canonical RIP (XSA-170) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1304628

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: 4.5.2
Release: 8.fc23
URL: https://xenproject.org/
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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