Fedora 27 FEDORA-2018-f20a0cead5 Moderate Nested VT-x Issue

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

x86: Nested VT-x usable even when disabled [XSA-278]

* Thu Oct 25 2018 Michael Young - 4.9.3-2

- x86: Nested VT-x usable even when disabled [XSA-278] (#1643118)

* Tue Sep 25 2018 Michael Young - 4.9.3-1

- update to 4.9.3

adjust xen.use.fedora.ipxe.patch

remove patches for issues now fixed upstream

* Wed Aug 15 2018 Michael Young - 4.9.2-7

- L1 Terminal Fault speculative side channel patch bundle [XSA-273,

CVE-2018-3620, CVE-2018-3646]

drop patches also in the bundle, which also includes

Use of v2 grant tables may cause crash on ARM [XSA-268, CVE-2018-15469]

(#1616081)

x86: Incorrect MSR_DEBUGCTL handling lets guests enable BTS [XSA-269,

CVE-2018-15468] (#1616077)

oxenstored does not apply quota-maxentity [XSA-272, CVE-2018-15470]

(#1616080)

* Wed Jun 27 2018 Michael Young - 4.9.2-6

- preemption checks bypassed in x86 PV MM handling [XSA-264, CVE-2018-12891]

(#1595959)

- x86: #DB exception safety check can be triggered by a guest [XSA-265,

CVE-2018-12893] (#1595958)

- libxl fails to honour readonly flag on HVM emulated SCSI disks [XSA-266,

CVE-2018-12892] (#1595957)

* Sat Jun 16 2018 Michael Young - 4.9.2-5

- Speculative register leakage from lazy FPU context switching

[XSA-267, CVE-2018-3665]

- fix for change in iasl output

* Tue May 22 2018 Michael Young - 4.9.2-4

- Speculative Store Bypass [XSA-263, CVE-2018-3639]

(with extra patches so it applies cleanly)

* Wed May 9 2018 Michael Young - 4.9.2-3

- x86: mishandling of debug exceptions [XSA-260, CVE-2018-8897]

(with extra patch so it applies cleanly)

- x86 vHPET interrupt injection errors [XSA-261, CVE-2018-10982] (#1576089)

- qemu may drive Xen into unbounded loop [XSA-262, CVE-2018-10981] (#1576680)

* Wed Apr 25 2018 Michael Young - 4.9.2-2

- Information leak via crafted user-supplied CDROM [XSA-258] (#1571867)

- x86: PV guest may crash Xen with XPTI [XSA-259] (#1571878)

* Wed Apr 4 2018 Michael Young - 4.9.2-1

- update to 4.9.2

adjust xen.use.fedora.ipxe.patch

remove patches for issues now fixed upstream

* Tue Feb 27 2018 Michael Young - 4.9.1-5

- add Xen page-table isolation (XPTI) mitigation

and Branch Target Injection (BTI) mitigation for XSA-254

- DoS via non-preemptable L3/L4 pagetable freeing [XSA-252, CVE-2018-7540]

(#1549568)

- grant table v2 -> v1 transition may crash Xen [XSA-255, CVE-2018-7541]

(#1549570)

- x86 PVH guest without LAPIC may DoS the host [XSA-256, CVE-2018-7542]

(#1549572)

* Tue Dec 12 2017 Michael Young - 4.9.1-4

- another patch related to the [XSA-240, CVE-2017-15595] issue

- xen: various flaws (#1525018)

x86 PV guests may gain access to internally used page

[XSA-248, CVE-2017-17566]

broken x86 shadow mode refcount overflow check [XSA-249, CVE-2017-17563]

improper x86 shadow mode refcount error handling [XSA-250, CVE-2017-17564]

improper bug check in x86 log-dirty handling [XSA-251, CVE-2017-17565]

* Sat Dec 2 2017 Richard W.M. Jones - 4.9.1-3

- OCaml 4.06.0 rebuild.

* Tue Nov 28 2017 Michael Young - 4.9.1-2

- xen: various flaws (#1518214)

x86: infinite loop due to missing PoD error checking [XSA-246, CVE-2017-17044]

Missing p2m error checking in PoD code [XSA-247, CVE-2017-17045]

* Thu Nov 23 2017 Michael Young - 4.9.1-1

- update to 4.9.1 (#1515818)

adjust xen.use.fedora.ipxe.patch

and qemu.git-fec5e8c92becad223df9d972770522f64aafdb72.patch

remove patches for issues now fixed upstream and parts of xen.gcc7.fix.patch

update xen.hypervisor.config

- update Source0 location

* Wed Nov 15 2017 Michael Young - 4.9.0-14

- fix an issue in patch for [XSA-240, CVE-2017-15595] that might be a

security issue

- fix for [XSA-243, CVE-2017-15592] could cause hypervisor crash (DOS)

* Thu Oct 26 2017 Michael Young - 4.9.0-13

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

(#1506693)

* Thu Oct 12 2017 Michael Young - 4.9.0-12

- xen: various flaws (#1501391)

multiple MSI mapping issues on x86 [XSA-237, CVE-2017-15590]

DMOP map/unmap missing argument checks [XSA-238, CVE-2017-15591]

hypervisor stack leak in x86 I/O intercept code [XSA-239, CVE-2017-15589]

Unlimited recursion in linear pagetable de-typing [XSA-240, CVE-2017-15595]

Stale TLB entry due to page type release race [XSA-241, CVE-2017-15588]

page type reference leak on x86 [XSA-242, CVE-2017-15593]

x86: Incorrect handling of self-linear shadow mappings with translated

guests [XSA-243, CVE-2017-15592]

x86: Incorrect handling of IST settings during CPU hotplug [XSA-244,

CVE-2017-15594]

[ 1 ] Bug #1643116 - CVE-2018-18883 xen: Nested VT-x usable even when disabled

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643116

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