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Fedora 30: FEDORA-2020-cbc3149753 Critical: Xen Security Update

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2020
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Addressing critical security issues in Fedora 30's Xen. Install updates for enhanced protection against exploitation.
update to 4.11.4 ---- multiple xenoprof issues [XSA-313, CVE-2020-11740, CVE-2020-11741] (#1823912, #1823914) Missing memory barriers in read-write unlock paths [XSA-314, CVE-2020-...

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

update to 4.11.4 ---- multiple xenoprof issues [XSA-313, CVE-2020-11740,

CVE-2020-11741] (#1823912, #1823914) Missing memory barriers in read-write

unlock paths [XSA-314, CVE-2020-11739] (#1823784) Bad error path in

GNTTABOP_map_grant [XSA-316, CVE-2020-11743] (#1823926) Bad continuation

handling in GNTTABOP_copy [XSA-318, CVE-2020-11742] (#1823943)

* Sat Apr 25 2020 Michael Young - 4.11.4-1

- update to 4.11.4

remove patches now fixed upstream

adjust xen.use.fedora.ipxe.patch

* Wed Apr 15 2020 Michael Young - 4.11.3-4

- multiple xenoprof issues [XSA-313, CVE-2020-11740, CVE-2020-11741]

(#1823912, #1823914)

- Missing memory barriers in read-write unlock paths [XSA-314,

CVE-2020-11739] (#1823784)

- Bad error path in GNTTABOP_map_grant [XSA-316, CVE-2020-11743] (#1823926)

- Bad continuation handling in GNTTABOP_copy [XSA-318, CVE-2020-11742]

(#1823943)

[ 1 ] Bug #1823783 - CVE-2020-11739 xen: missing memory barriers in read-write unlock paths (XSA-314)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1823783

[ 2 ] Bug #1823911 - CVE-2020-11740 xen: xenoprof issue allows guest OS users without active profiling to obtain sensitive information about other guests (XSA-313)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1823911

[ 3 ] Bug #1823913 - CVE-2020-11741 xen: xenoprof issue allows guest OS users with active profiling to obtain sensitive information about other guests (XSA-313)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1823913

[ 4 ] Bug #1823925 - CVE-2020-11743 xen: bad error path in GNTTABOP_map_grant (XSA-316)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1823925

[ 5 ] Bug #1823942 - CVE-2020-11742 xen: bad continuation handling in GNTTABOP_copy (XSA-318)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1823942

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-cbc3149753' 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: 4.11.4
Release: 1.fc30
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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