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Fedora 25: 2017-f2577f2108 Critical: Xen Denial of Service Update

fedora
Calendar Grey December 12, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Xen security patch for Fedora 25 resolves urgent vulnerabilities, specifically those that could lead to hypervisor system failures.
update to xen-4.7.4 update Source0 location ---- fix an issue in patch for [XSA-240, CVE-2017-15595] that might be a security issue fix for [XSA-243, CVE-2017-15592] could cause hy...

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

update to xen-4.7.4 update Source0 location ---- fix an issue in patch for

[XSA-240, CVE-2017-15595] that might be a security issue fix for [XSA-243,

CVE-2017-15592] could cause hypervisor crash (DOS)

[ 1 ] Bug #1499823 - CVE-2017-15592 xsa243 xen: x86: Incorrect handling of self-linear shadow mappings with translated guests (XSA-243)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1499823

[ 2 ] Bug #1499820 - CVE-2017-15595 xsa240 xen: Unlimited recursion in linear pagetable de-typing (XSA-240)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1499820

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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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 4.7.4
Release: 1.fc25
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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