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Ubuntu 22.10: UBUNTU-2024-b1387xyz Critical: Linux Kernel Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey March 14, 2024
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Significant update for Fedora 39 resolves issues related to shadow stack vulnerabilities in the Xen Hypervisor architecture.
x86: shadow stack vs exceptions from emulation stubs - [XSA-451, CVE-2023-46841] (#2266326)

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

Update Information:

x86: shadow stack vs exceptions from emulation stubs - [XSA-451, CVE-2023-46841] (#2266326)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora CVE issue emulation Xen shadow stack

Change Log

* Tue Feb 27 2024 Michael Young - 4.17.2-7 - x86: shadow stack vs exceptions from emulation stubs - [XSA-451, CVE-2023-46841] (#2266326)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2266325 - CVE-2023-46841 xen: x86 shadow stack vs exceptions from emulation stubs https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2266325

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-aca9ed1eb1' 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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Name: xen
Product: Fedora 39
Version: 4.17.2
Release: 7.fc39
URL: https://xenproject.org/
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora CVE issue emulation Xen shadow stack

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