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Fedora 31: FEDORA-2020-6dd36a716c Critical: Xen IOMMU Updates

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Calendar Grey November 19, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Suse Patch Alert for Xen addresses multiple issues, boosting efficiency for x86 PV virtual machines and refining IOMMU functionalities.
revised patch for XSA-286 (mitigating performance impact) ---- x86 PV guest INVLPG-like flushes may leave stale TLB entries [XSA-286, CVE-2020-27674] (#1891092) ---- x86: Race cond...

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

revised patch for XSA-286 (mitigating performance impact) ---- x86 PV guest

INVLPG-like flushes may leave stale TLB entries [XSA-286, CVE-2020-27674]

(#1891092) ---- x86: Race condition in Xen mapping code [XSA-345] undue

deferral of IOMMU TLB flushes [XSA-346] unsafe AMD IOMMU page table updates

[XSA-347]

* Tue Nov 3 2020 Michael Young - 4.12.3-8

- revised patch for XSA-286 (mitigating performance impact)

* Thu Oct 29 2020 Michael Young - 4.12.3-7

- x86 PV guest INVLPG-like flushes may leave stale TLB entries

[XSA-286, CVE-2020-27674] (#1891092)

* Tue Oct 20 2020 Michael Young - 4.12.3-6

- x86: Race condition in Xen mapping code [XSA-345, CVE-2020-27672]

(#1891097)

- undue deferral of IOMMU TLB flushes [XSA-346, CVE-2020-27671]

(#1891093)

- unsafe AMD IOMMU page table updates [XSA-347, CVE-2020-27670]

(#1891088)

[ 1 ] Bug #1891087 - CVE-2020-27670 xen: unsafe AMD IOMMU page table updates (XSA-347)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1891087

[ 2 ] Bug #1891089 - CVE-2020-27674 xen: x86 PV guest INVLPG-like flushes may leave stale TLB entries (XSA-286)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1891089

[ 3 ] Bug #1891091 - CVE-2020-27671 xen: undue deferral of IOMMU TLB flushes (XSA-346)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1891091

[ 4 ] Bug #1891096 - CVE-2020-27672 xen: x86: race condition in Xen mapping code (XSA-345)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1891096

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-6dd36a716c' 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 31
Version: 4.12.3
Release: 8.fc31
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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