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Fedora 29: Vital Security Update FEDORA-2019-1f5832fc0e Regarding MDS

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Calendar Grey May 30, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A recent Xen update for Fedora 29 resolves vulnerabilities related to speculative execution through targeted patches that bolster security measures.
Microarchitectural Data Sampling speculative side channel [XSA-297, CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2018-12130, CVE-2019-11091] additional patches so above applies cleanly work...

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

Microarchitectural Data Sampling speculative side channel [XSA-297,

CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2018-12130, CVE-2019-11091] additional

patches so above applies cleanly work around grub2 issues in dom0

* Tue May 14 2019 Michael Young - 4.11.1-5

- Microarchitectural Data Sampling speculative side channel [XSA-297,

CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2018-12130, CVE-2019-11091]

- additional patches so above applies cleanly

- work around grub2 issues in dom0

* Tue Mar 5 2019 Michael Young - 4.11.1-4

- xen: various flaws (#1685577)

grant table transfer issues on large hosts [XSA-284]

race with pass-through device hotplug [XSA-285]

x86: steal_page violates page_struct access discipline [XSA-287]

x86: Inconsistent PV IOMMU discipline [XSA-288]

missing preemption in x86 PV page table unvalidation [XSA-290]

x86/PV: page type reference counting issue with failed IOMMU update [XSA-291]

x86: insufficient TLB flushing when using PCID [XSA-292]

x86: PV kernel context switch corruption [XSA-293]

x86 shadow: Insufficient TLB flushing when using PCID [XSA-294]

* Thu Feb 14 2019 Michael Young - 4.11.1-3

- add gcc9 build fixes (#1676229)

* Sun Feb 3 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 4.11.1-2

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild

* Tue Dec 11 2018 Michael Young - 4.11.1-1

- update to 4.11.1

remove patches for issues now fixed upstream

adjust xen.use.fedora.ipxe.patch

- only include qemutrad build requirements for platforms that use it

- construct ovmf.bin from edk2-ovmf package (#1656651)

* Tue Nov 20 2018 Michael Young - 4.11.0-10

- insufficient TLB flushing / improper large page mappings with AMD IOMMUs

[XSA-275, CVE-2018-19961, CVE-2018-19962] (#1651665)

- x86: DoS from attempting to use INVPCID with a non-canonical addresses

[XSA-279, CVE-2018-19965] (#1651970)

- xen: various flaws (#1652251)

resource accounting issues in x86 IOREQ server handling

[XSA-276, CVE-2018-19963]

x86: incorrect error handling for guest p2m page removals

[XSA-277, CVE-2018-19964]

Fix for XSA-240 conflicts with shadow paging [XSA-280, CVE-2018-19966]

* Tue Nov 6 2018 Michael Young - 4.11.0-9

- guest use of HLE constructs may lock up host [XSA-282, CVE-2018-19967]

* 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-2019-1f5832fc0e' 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 29
Version: 4.11.1
Release: 5.fc29
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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