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Fedora 24 - 2017-b3bdaf58bc Moderate: Xen Privilege Escalation Issues

fedora
Calendar Grey July 2, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Fedora Project has released a security advisory on vulnerabilities in the Xen hypervisor, urging users to review and apply updates promptly for system security
xen: various flaws (#1463247) blkif responses leak backend stack data [XSA-216] page transfer may allow PV guest to elevate privilege [XSA-217] Races in the grant table unmap code ...

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

xen: various flaws (#1463247) blkif responses leak backend stack data [XSA-216]

page transfer may allow PV guest to elevate privilege [XSA-217] Races in the

grant table unmap code [XSA-218] x86: insufficient reference counts during

shadow emulation [XSA-219] x86: PKRU and BND* leakage between vCPU-s [XSA-220]

stale P2M mappings due to insufficient error checking [XSA-222] ARM guest

disabling interrupt may crash Xen [XSA-223] grant table operations mishandle

reference counts [XSA-224] arm: vgic: Out-of-bound access when sending SGIs

[XSA-225] NULL pointer deref in event channel poll [XSA-221] (#1463231)

[ 1 ] Bug #1458870 - xsa216 xen: blkif responses leak backend stack data (XSA-216)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458870

[ 2 ] Bug #1458871 - xsa217 xen: page transfer may allow PV guest to elevate privilege (XSA-217)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458871

[ 3 ] Bug #1458872 - xsa218 xen: Races in the grant table unmap code (XSA-218)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458872

[ 4 ] Bug #1458873 - xsa219 xen: x86: insufficient reference counts during shadow emulation (XSA-219)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458873

[ 5 ] Bug #1458874 - xsa220 xen: x86: PKRU and BND* leakage between vCPU-s (XSA-220)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458874

[ 6 ] Bug #1458876 - xsa222 xen: stale P2M mappings due to insufficient error checking (XSA-222)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458876

[ 7 ] Bug #1458877 - xsa223 xen: ARM guest disabling interrupt may crash Xen (XSA-223)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458877

[ 8 ] Bug #1458878 - xsa224 xen: grant table operations mishandle reference counts (XSA-224)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458878

[ 9 ] Bug #1459515 - xsa225 xen: arm: vgic: Out-of-bound access when sending SGIs (XSA-225)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1459515

[ 10 ] Bug #1458875 - xsa221 xen: NULL pointer deref in event channel poll (XSA-221)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458875

su -c 'dnf upgrade xen' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 24
Version: 4.6.5
Release: 7.fc24
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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