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Fedora 28: FEDORA-2018-a7ac26523d Critical: Unbounded Loop in Xen

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Calendar Grey May 12, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
With the launch of Fedora 28, important challenges in Xen have been tackled, featuring enhancements to security protocols concerning debug exceptions among other improvements.
x86: mishandling of debug exceptions [XSA-260, CVE-2018-8897] x86 vHPET interrupt injection errors [XSA-261] (#1576089) qemu may drive Xen into unbounded loop [XSA-262] ---- update...

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

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

interrupt injection errors [XSA-261] (#1576089) qemu may drive Xen into

unbounded loop [XSA-262] ---- update to xen-4.10.1

* 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] (#1576089)

- qemu may drive Xen into unbounded loop [XSA-262]

* 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 #1571880 - CVE-2018-10982 xsa261 xen: x86 vHPET interrupt injection errors (XSA-261)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1571880

[ 2 ] Bug #1571881 - CVE-2018-10981 xsa262 xen: qemu may drive Xen into unbounded loop (XSA-262)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1571881

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-a7ac26523d' 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: 2.fc28
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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