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Fedora 40: xen 2025-20bd6d94b9 Security Advisory Updates

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Calendar Grey March 15, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Xen 4.18.4 on Fedora 40 faces a critical deadlock threat due to VT-d and PCI pass-through issues. Update recommended.
deadlock potential with VT-d and legacy PCI device pass-through [XSA-467, CVE-2025-1713]

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

Update Information:

deadlock potential with VT-d and legacy PCI device pass-through [XSA-467, CVE-2025-1713]

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora deadlock PCI pass-through Xen VT-d CVE-2025-1713

Change Log

* Thu Feb 27 2025 Michael Young - 4.18.4-2 - deadlock potential with VT-d and legacy PCI device pass-through [XSA-467, CVE-2025-1713]

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2025-20bd6d94b9 2025-03-15 02:51:38.282041+00:00 Name : xen Product : Fedora 40 Version : 4.18.4 Release : 2.fc40 URL : https://xenproject.org/ Summary : Xen is a virtual machine monitor Description : This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the Xen hypervisor

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-20bd6d94b9' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: xen
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 4.18.4
Release: 2.fc40
URL: https://xenproject.org/
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora deadlock PCI pass-through Xen VT-d CVE-2025-1713

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