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Fedora 25 Critical: 2017-c4aa57d753 Xen Pin Count Race Issue

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 25 has launched a crucial security patch for the Xen hypervisor, addressing vulnerabilities tied to pin count management in the grant table features. Key update details included
pin count / page reference race in grant table code [XSA-236, CVE-2017-15597]

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

pin count / page reference race in grant table code [XSA-236, CVE-2017-15597]

[ 1 ] Bug #1499815 - CVE-2017-15597 xsa236 xen: pin count / page reference race in grant table code (XSA-236)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1499815

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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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 4.7.3
Release: 8.fc25
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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