Mageia: 2019-0217 Critical: Xen Memory Management DoS Attack
mageia
August 3, 2019
This kernel update is based on the upstream 5.1.20 and fixes atleast the following security issue: With Xen, virtual device backends and device models running in domain 0, or othe...
Summary
This kernel update is based on the upstream 5.1.20 and fixes atleast the following security issue: With Xen, virtual device backends and device models running in domain 0, or other backend driver domains, need to be able to map guest memory
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25185
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24701
- https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-300.html
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.1.19
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.1.20
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.1.21
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Resolution
SRPMS
- 7/core/kernel-5.1.20-2.mga7
- 7/core/kernel-userspace-headers-5.1.20-1.mga7
- 7/core/kmod-virtualbox-6.0.10-2.mga7
- 7/core/kmod-xtables-addons-3.3-56.mga7
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Publication date: 03 Aug 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0217.html
Type: security
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