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Fedora 26: 2017-77ca39d254 Severe: Xen Security Flaws Fix Overview

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Calendar Grey May 8, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 26 enhances system security by implementing Xen security patches that rectify privilege escalation vulnerabilities and guest breakout issues.
xen: various flaws (#1447345) x86: 64bit PV guest breakout via pagetable use- after-mode-change [XSA-213] grant transfer allows PV guest to elevate privileges [XSA-214]

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

xen: various flaws (#1447345) x86: 64bit PV guest breakout via pagetable use-after-mode-change [XSA-213] grant transfer allows PV guest to elevate privileges

[XSA-214]

[ 1 ] Bug #1443222 - xsa213 xen: x86: 64bit PV guest breakout via pagetable use-after-mode-change (XSA-213)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1443222

[ 2 ] Bug #1443223 - xsa214 xen: grant transfer allows PV guest to elevate privileges (XSA-214)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1443223

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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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 4.8.1
Release: 2.fc26
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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