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Fedora 28: FEDORA-2018-73dd8de892 Critical: Nested Virtualization Risk

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Calendar Grey November 11, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Urgent patch release for Fedora 28 focusing on nested virtualization security flaws within the Xen hypervisor environment. Crucial for safeguarding system integrity.
x86: Nested VT-x usable even when disabled [XSA-278]

Summary

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]

* Tue Sep 25 2018 Michael Young - 4.10.2-2

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

* Tue Sep 25 2018 Michael Young - 4.10.2-1

- update to xen-4.10.2

adjust xen.use.fedora.ipxe.patch

remove patches for issues now fixed upstream

* Wed Aug 15 2018 Michael Young - 4.10.1-6

- 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 - 4.10.1-5

- 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)

* Fri Jun 15 2018 Michael Young - 4.10.1-4

- 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 - 4.10.1-3

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

(with extra patches so it applies cleanly)

* Tue May 8 2018 Michael Young - 4.10.1-2

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

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

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

* Thu May 3 2018 Michael Young - 4.10.1-1

- update to xen-4.10.1

adjust xen.use.fedora.ipxe.patch and xen.fedora.efi.build.patch

remove patches for issues now fixed upstream

package /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/xen/boot/xen-shim-syms

* Wed Apr 25 2018 Michael Young - 4.10.0-9

- Information leak via crafted user-supplied CDROM [XSA-258, CVE-2018-10472]

(#1571867)

- x86: PV guest may crash Xen with XPTI [XSA-259, CVE-2018-10471] (#1571878)

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

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

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-73dd8de892' 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 28
Version: 4.10.2
Release: 2.fc28
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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