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fedora
Calendar Grey July 3, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 28 receives a vital Xen security patch that rectifies severe vulnerabilities, such as the evasion of preemption verifications and flaws within SCSI disk operations.
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] (#159595...

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]

(#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)

* 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 #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-a7862a75f5' 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: 4.10.1
Release: 5.fc28
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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