Fedora 25: Important Security Update for Critical Xen Vulnerabilities
fedora
October 9, 2016
enable xen livepatch in hypervisor via .config file qemu-kvm: Directory traversal flaw in 9p virtio backend [CVE-2016-7116] qemu: hw: net: Heap overflow in xlnx.xps-ethernetlite [C...
Summary
This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line
tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the
Xen hypervisor
Update Information:
enable xen livepatch in hypervisor via .config file qemu-kvm: Directory traversal flaw in 9p virtio backend [CVE-2016-7116] qemu: hw: net: Heap overflow in xlnx.xps-ethernetlite [CVE-2016-7161] CR0.TS and CR0.EM not always honored for x86 HVM guest [XSA-190, CVE-2016-7777]
Topics Covered
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1346349 - CVE-2016-7116 Qemu: 9p: directory traversal flaw in 9p virtio backend
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346349
[ 2 ] Bug #1379297 - CVE-2016-7161 qemu: hw: net: Heap overflow in xlnx.xps-ethernetlite
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1379297
[ 3 ] Bug #1377789 - CVE-2016-7777 xsa190 xen: CR0.TS and CR0.EM not always honored for x86 HVM guests (XSA-190)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1377789
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 25
Version: 4.7.0
Release: 6.fc25
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor
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