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Fedora 27: FEDORA-2018-1a467757ce Critical: Xen Security Issues

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Calendar Grey July 13, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical Fedora 27 update resolves significant xen security issues, enhancing virtualization safety and system integrity.
preemption checks bypassed in x86 PV MM handling [XSA-264, CVE-2018-12891] x86: #DB exception safety check can be triggered by a guest [XSA-265, CVE-2018-12893] libxl fails to hono...

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

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

#DB exception safety check can be triggered by a guest [XSA-265, CVE-2018-12893]

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

CVE-2018-12892] ---- Speculative register leakage from lazy FPU context

switching [XSA-267, CVE-2018-3665] fix for change in iasl output

* Wed Jun 27 2018 Michael Young - 4.9.2-6

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

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

CVE-2018-12893]

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

CVE-2018-12892]

* 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 #1590984 - CVE-2018-12892 xsa-266 xen: libxl fails to honour readonly flag on HVM emulated SCSI disks

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1590984

[ 2 ] Bug #1590979 - CVE-2018-12893 xen: x86 DB exception safety check can be triggered by a guest (XSA-265)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1590979

[ 3 ] Bug #1590985 - CVE-2018-12891 xen: preemption checks bypassed in x86 PV MM handling (XSA-264)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1590985

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-1a467757ce' 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 27
Version: 4.9.2
Release: 6.fc27
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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