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Calendar Grey December 10, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora 27 update addresses critical security vulnerabilities in Xen, enhancing error validation and delivering vital patches for improved system integrity.
xen: various flaws (#1518214) x86: infinite loop due to missing PoD error checking [XSA-246] Missing p2m error checking in PoD code [XSA-247]

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 (#1518214) x86: infinite loop due to missing PoD error

checking [XSA-246] Missing p2m error checking in PoD code [XSA-247]

[ 1 ] Bug #1513335 - CVE-2017-17044 xsa246 xen: x86: infinite loop due to missing PoD error checking (XSA-246)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1513335

[ 2 ] Bug #1513336 - CVE-2017-17045 xsa247 xen: Missing p2m error checking in PoD code (XSA-247)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1513336

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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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 4.9.1
Release: 2.fc27
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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