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Fedora 26: RHSA-2017-6d7e8c1b5e Urgent: Kernel Security Flaw

fedora
Calendar Grey July 7, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 26 has addressed Xen vulnerabilities with security updates to prevent privilege escalation and data leaks, enhancing virtualization security for users.
xen: various flaws (#1463247) blkif responses leak backend stack data [XSA-216] page transfer may allow PV guest to elevate privilege [XSA-217] Races in the grant table unmap code ...

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 (#1463247) blkif responses leak backend stack data [XSA-216]

page transfer may allow PV guest to elevate privilege [XSA-217] Races in the

grant table unmap code [XSA-218] x86: insufficient reference counts during

shadow emulation [XSA-219] x86: PKRU and BND* leakage between vCPU-s [XSA-220]

NULL pointer deref in event channel poll [XSA-221] (#1463231) stale P2M mappings

due to insufficient error checking [XSA-222] ARM guest disabling interrupt may

crash Xen [XSA-223] grant table operations mishandle reference counts [XSA-224]

arm: vgic: Out-of-bound access when sending SGIs [XSA-225]

[ 1 ] Bug #1458870 - CVE-2017-10911 xsa216 xen: blkif responses leak backend stack data (XSA-216)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458870

[ 2 ] Bug #1458871 - CVE-2017-10912 xsa217 xen: page transfer may allow PV guest to elevate privilege (XSA-217)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458871

[ 3 ] Bug #1458872 - CVE-2017-10913 CVE-2017-10914 xsa218 xen: Races in the grant table unmap code (XSA-218)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458872

[ 4 ] Bug #1458873 - CVE-2017-10915 xsa219 xen: x86: insufficient reference counts during shadow emulation (XSA-219)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458873

[ 5 ] Bug #1458874 - CVE-2017-10916 xsa220 xen: x86: PKRU and BND* leakage between vCPU-s (XSA-220)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458874

[ 6 ] Bug #1458876 - CVE-2017-10918 xsa222 xen: stale P2M mappings due to insufficient error checking (XSA-222)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458876

[ 7 ] Bug #1458877 - CVE-2017-10919 xsa223 xen: ARM guest disabling interrupt may crash Xen (XSA-223)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458877

[ 8 ] Bug #1458878 - CVE-2017-10920 CVE-2017-10921 CVE-2017-10922 xsa224 xen: grant table operations mishandle reference counts (XSA-224)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458878

[ 9 ] Bug #1459515 - CVE-2017-10923 xsa225 xen: arm: vgic: Out-of-bound access when sending SGIs (XSA-225)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1459515

[ 10 ] Bug #1458875 - CVE-2017-10917 xsa221 xen: NULL pointer deref in event channel poll (XSA-221)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1458875

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

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