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Fedora 29: FEDORA-2019-3e89502cb1 Critical: Xen Flaws Update

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Calendar Grey March 12, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical security enhancements released for Fedora 29 targeting significant vulnerabilities in Xen, impacting sizable servers and IOMMU frameworks. Must-apply fix.
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 disci...

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

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]

* 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)

[ 1 ] Bug #1679321 - xen: xsa288: Inconsistent PV IOMMU discipline

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1679321

[ 2 ] Bug #1679326 - xen: xsa292: insufficient TLB flushing when using PCID

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1679326

[ 3 ] Bug #1679327 - xen: xsa293: PV kernel context switch corruption

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1679327

[ 4 ] Bug #1679328 - xen: xsa287: steal_page violates page_struct access discipline

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1679328

[ 5 ] Bug #1679332 - xen: xsa285: race with pass-through device hotplug

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1679332

[ 6 ] Bug #1679334 - xen: xsa290: missing preemption in x86 PV page table unvalidation

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1679334

[ 7 ] Bug #1683956 - xen: xsa294: Insufficient TLB flushing when using PCID

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1683956

[ 8 ] Bug #1685568 - xen: xsa284: grant table transfer issues on large hosts

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1685568

[ 9 ] Bug #1685570 - xen: xsa291: x86/PV: page type reference counting issue with failed IOMMU update

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1685570

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-3e89502cb1' 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: 4.fc29
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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