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Fedora 42 Xen DoS and Race Conditions XSA-483 XSA-484 XSA-486 XSA-488

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Calendar Grey May 14, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical updates for Fedora 42 related to Xen's security vulnerabilities including DoS and race conditions. Immediate actions are advised.
oxenstored keeps quota related use counts across domain destruction [XSA-483, CVE-2026-23556] Xenstored DoS via XS_RESET_WATCHES command [XSA-484, CVE-2026-23557] grant table v2 ra...

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

Update Information:

oxenstored keeps quota related use counts across domain destruction [XSA-483, CVE-2026-23556] Xenstored DoS via XS_RESET_WATCHES command [XSA-484, CVE-2026-23557] grant table v2 race in status page mapping [XSA-486, CVE-2026-23558] x86: Floating Point Divider State Sampling [XSA-488, CVE-2025-54505]

Change Log

* Wed Apr 29 2026 Michael Young - 4.19.5-2 - oxenstored keeps quota related use counts across domain destruction [XSA-483, CVE-2026-23556] - Xenstored DoS via XS_RESET_WATCHES command [XSA-484, CVE-2026-23557] - grant table v2 race in status page mapping [XSA-486, CVE-2026-23558] - x86: Floating Point Divider State Sampling [XSA-488, CVE-2025-54505]

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2026-0c9aff64a5 2026-05-14 04:02:29.141231+00:00 Name : xen Product : Fedora 42 Version : 4.19.5 Release : 2.fc42 URL : http://xen.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-2026-0c9aff64a5' 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 42
Version: 4.19.5
Release: 2.fc42
Summary: Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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