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Fedora: 2020-ec84c1565b Moderate: Xen TLB Entries Buffer Issue

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Fedora Security Advisory regarding xen reveals performance drawbacks linked to TLB entries as outlined in the XSA-286 patch information.
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) simplify grub scrip...

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) simplify grub scripts (patches from Thierry Vignaud

) some fixes for gcc 11

* Tue Nov 3 2020 Michael Young - 4.14.0-9

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

* Fri Oct 30 2020 Jeff Law - 4.14.0-8

- Work around gcc-11 stringop-overflow diagnostics as well

* Wed Oct 28 2020 Michael Young - 4.14.0-7

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

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

- simplify grub scripts (patches from Thierry Vignaud )

- some fixes for gcc 11

[ 1 ] 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

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-ec84c1565b' 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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Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 33
Version: 4.14.0
Release: 9.fc33
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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