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Fedora 29: FEDORA-2018-8e457298ce moderate: xen host lockup

fedora
Calendar Grey November 14, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
CentOS 7 patches for KVM enhance guest utilization of HLE mechanisms, causing potential host freezes with comprehensive guidance released.
guest use of HLE constructs may lock up host [XSA-282]

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

guest use of HLE constructs may lock up host [XSA-282]

* Tue Nov 6 2018 Michael Young - 4.11.0-9

- guest use of HLE constructs may lock up host [XSA-282]

* Wed Oct 24 2018 Michael Young - 4.11.0-8

- x86: Nested VT-x usable even when disabled [XSA-278, CVE-2018-18883]

(#1643118)

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-8e457298ce' 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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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 29
Version: 4.11.0
Release: 9.fc29
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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