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Fedora 35: 2021-081f9bf5d2 Moderate: Xen Hypervisor DoS Issues

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Calendar Grey September 24, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This revision tackles significant localization concerns in Xen for Fedora, potentially leading to denial of service scenarios stemming from improper resource management.
IOMMU page mapping issues on x86 [XSA-378, CVE-2021-28694, CVE-2021-28695, CVE-2021-28696] (#1997531) (#1997568) (#1997537) grant table v2 status pages may remain accessible after ...

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

IOMMU page mapping issues on x86 [XSA-378, CVE-2021-28694, CVE-2021-28695,

CVE-2021-28696] (#1997531) (#1997568) (#1997537) grant table v2 status pages may

remain accessible after de-allocation [XSA-379, CVE-2021-28697] (#1997520) long

running loops in grant table handling [XSA-380, CVE-2021-28698] (#1997526)

inadequate grant-v2 status frames array bounds check [XSA-382, CVE-2021-28699]

(#1997523) xen/arm: No memory limit for dom0less domUs [XSA-383, CVE-2021-28700]

(#1997527)

* Wed Aug 25 2021 Michael Young - 4.15.0-6

- IOMMU page mapping issues on x86 [XSA-378, CVE-2021-28694,

CVE-2021-28695, CVE-2021-28696] (#1997531) (#1997568)

(#1997537)

- grant table v2 status pages may remain accessible after de-allocation

[XSA-379, CVE-2021-28697] (#1997520)

- long running loops in grant table handling [XSA-380, CVE-2021-28698]

(#1997526)

- inadequate grant-v2 status frames array bounds check [XSA-382,

CVE-2021-28699] (#1997523)

- xen/arm: No memory limit for dom0less domUs [XSA-383, CVE-2021-28700]

(#1997527)

- grub x86_64-efi modules now go into /boot/grub2

[ 1 ] Bug #1997519 - CVE-2021-28697 xen: malicious guest may be able to elevate its privileges leads to DoS

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1997519

[ 2 ] Bug #1997522 - CVE-2021-28699 xen: malicious guest kernel leads to DoS

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1997522

[ 3 ] Bug #1997524 - CVE-2021-28698 xen: malicious kernels lead to DoS

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1997524

[ 4 ] Bug #1997525 - CVE-2021-28700 xen: malicious dom0less guest could drive Xen out of memory and leads to DoS

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1997525

[ 5 ] Bug #1997529 - CVE-2021-28694 xen: failed to prevent guests from undoing/replacing such mappings

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1997529

[ 6 ] Bug #1997535 - CVE-2021-28696 xen: physical device from a guest allowing to access memory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1997535

[ 7 ] Bug #1997567 - CVE-2021-28695 xen: discontinuous range is specified by firmware leads to vulnerability

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1997567

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-081f9bf5d2' 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 35
Version: 4.15.0
Release: 6.fc35
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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