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Fedora 30: FEDORA-2020-2d9a75fadb Critical: Xen CPU Speculation

fedora
Calendar Grey January 30, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Tackling significant weaknesses in Fedora 30's Xen hypervisor patch concerning CPU speculative execution and disruptions in service availability.
arm: a CPU may speculate past the ERET instruction [XSA-312]

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

arm: a CPU may speculate past the ERET instruction [XSA-312]

* Tue Jan 14 2020 Michael Young - 4.11.3-3

- arm: a CPU may speculate past the ERET instruction [XSA-312]

* Thu Dec 12 2019 Michael Young - 4.11.3-2

- denial of service in find_next_bit() [XSA-307, CVE-2019-19581,

CVE-2019-19582] (#1782211)

- denial of service in HVM/PVH guest userspace code [XSA-308,

CVE-2019-19583] (#1782206)

- privilege escalation due to malicious PV guest [XSA-309, CVE-2019-19578]

(#1782210)

- Further issues with restartable PV type change operations [XSA-310,

CVE-2019-19580] (#1782207)

- vulnerability in dynamic height handling for AMD IOMMU pagetables

[XSA-311, CVE-2019-19577] (#1782208)

* Tue Dec 3 2019 Michael Young - 4.11.3-1

- update to 4.11.3

remove patches now fixed upstream

adjust xen.use.fedora.ipxe.patch

* Tue Nov 26 2019 Michael Young - 4.11.2-4

- Device quarantine for alternate pci assignment methods [XSA-306,

CVE-2019-19579] (#1780559)

* Tue Nov 12 2019 Michael Young - 4.11.2-3

- add missing XSA-299 patches

- x86: Machine Check Error on Page Size Change DoS [XSA-304, CVE-2018-12207]

- TSX Asynchronous Abort speculative side channel [XSA-305, CVE-2019-11135]

* Fri Nov 1 2019 Michael Young - 4.11.2-2

- VCPUOP_initialise DoS [XSA-296, CVE-2019-18420] (#1771368)

- missing descriptor table limit checking in x86 PV emulation [XSA-298,

CVE-2019-18425] (#1771341)

- Issues with restartable PV type change operations [XSA-299, CVE-2019-18421]

(#1767726)

- add-to-physmap can be abused to DoS Arm hosts [XSA-301, CVE-2019-18423]

(#1771345)

- passed through PCI devices may corrupt host memory after deassignment

[XSA-302, CVE-2019-18424] (#1767731)

- ARM: Interrupts are unconditionally unmasked in exception handlers

[XSA-303, CVE-2019-18422] (#1771443)

* Mon Jul 1 2019 Michael Young - 4.11.2-1

- update to 4.11.2

remove patches now fixed upstream

adjust xen.use.fedora.ipxe.patch

drop parts of xen.gcc9.fixes.patch

* Sat Jun 15 2019 Michael Young - 4.11.1-6

- Unlimited Arm Atomics Operations [XSA-295, CVE-2019-17349,

CVE-2019-17350] (#1720760)

* 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

[ 1 ] Bug #1791288 - arm: a CPU may speculate past the ERET instruction which could lead to host memory read

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1791288

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-2d9a75fadb' 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 30
Version: 4.11.3
Release: 3.fc30
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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