Fedora 24: Xen Security Update 2016-bc02bff7f5 Moderate: Emulation Issues
fedora
December 31, 2016
two security flaws (#1406840) x86 PV guests may be able to mask interrupts [XSA-202, CVE-2016-10024] x86: missing NULL pointer check in VMFUNC emulation [XSA-203, CVE-2016-10025] x...
Summary
This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line
tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the
Xen hypervisor
Update Information:
two security flaws (#1406840) x86 PV guests may be able to mask interrupts [XSA-202, CVE-2016-10024] x86: missing NULL pointer check in VMFUNC emulation [XSA-203, CVE-2016-10025] x86: Mishandling of SYSCALL singlestep during emulation [XSA-204, CVE-2016-10013] (#1406260)
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Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1402759 - CVE-2016-10025 xsa203 xen: x86: missing NULL pointer check in VMFUNC emulation (XSA-203)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1402759
[ 2 ] Bug #1402758 - CVE-2016-10024 xsa202 xen: x86 PV guests may be able to mask interrupts (XSA-202)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1402758
[ 3 ] Bug #1406259 - CVE-2016-10013 xen: x86: Mishandling of SYSCALL singlestep during emulation (XSA-204)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1406259
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use 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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Name: xen
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 4.6.4
Release: 5.fc24
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor
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