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Fedora 24: 2017-03dc811be6 Moderate: Xen Memory Leak And DoS

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Calendar Grey April 14, 2017
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The latest security briefing for Fedora 24 regarding Xen has outlined significant memory leak and denial of service vulnerabilities, along with the requisite updates provided.
Qemu: 9pfs: host memory leakage via v9fs_create [CVE-2017-7377] (#1437873) ---- add additional patch for [XSA-206] (#1436690) ---- xenstore denial of service via repeated update [X...

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

Qemu: 9pfs: host memory leakage via v9fs_create [CVE-2017-7377] (#1437873) ----add additional patch for [XSA-206] (#1436690) ---- xenstore denial of service

via repeated update [XSA-206] (#1436690)

[ 1 ] Bug #1437871 - CVE-2017-7377 Qemu: 9pfs: host memory leakage via v9fs_create

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1437871

[ 2 ] Bug #1434741 - CVE-2017-7228 xsa212 xen: x86: broken check in memory_exchange() permits PV guest breakout (XSA-212)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1434741

[ 3 ] Bug #1433879 - xsa206 xen: xenstore denial of service via repeated update (XSA-206)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1433879

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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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 24
Version: 4.6.5
Release: 5.fc24
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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