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Fedora: 2017-b8fa8e1a13 Urgent: Xen Memory Leak Issue Reported

fedora
Calendar Grey August 26, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential Fedora patch resolves memory overflow concerns in Qemu along with xendomain discrepancies.
full fix for XSA-226, replacing workaround drop conflict of xendomain and libvirtd as can cause problems (#1398590) add-to-physmap error paths fail to release lock on ARM [XSA-235]...

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

full fix for XSA-226, replacing workaround drop conflict of xendomain and

libvirtd as can cause problems (#1398590) add-to-physmap error paths fail to

release lock on ARM [XSA-235] (#1484476) Qemu: audio: host memory leakage via

capture buffer [CVE-2017-8309] (#1446521) Qemu: input: host memory leakage via

keyboard events [CVE-2017-8379] (#1446561)

[ 1 ] Bug #1484476 - xsa235 xen: add-to-physmap error paths fail to release lock on ARM

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484476

[ 2 ] Bug #1446517 - CVE-2017-8309 Qemu: audio: host memory leakage via capture buffer

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446517

[ 3 ] Bug #1446547 - CVE-2017-8379 Qemu: input: host memory lekage via keyboard events

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446547

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: 7.fc26
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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