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Fedora 23 FEDORA-2015-14361 Critical: Xen Memory Leak Flaws

Use after free in QEMU/Xen block unplug protocol [XSA-139, CVE-2015-5166] QEMU leak of uninitialized heap memory in rtl8139 device model [XSA-140, CVE-2015-5165]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-14361 2015-09-01 18:30:52.011678 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : xen Product : Fedora 23 Version : 4.5.1 Release : 6.fc23 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 Information: Use after free in QEMU/Xen block unplug protocol [XSA-139, CVE-2015-5166] QEMU leak of uninitialized heap memory in rtl8139 device model [XSA-140, CVE-2015-5165] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1248997 - CVE-2015-5166 Qemu: BlockBackend object use after free issue (XSA-139) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248997 [ 2 ] Bug #1248760 - CVE-2015-5165 Qemu: rtl8139 uninitialized heap memory information leakage to guest (XSA-140) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248760 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update xen' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at . All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailinglist This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/package-announce.lists.fedoraproject.org/ . Essential patches for Fedora 23 tackling vulnerabilities within Xen's disk disconnection process and addressing memory management errors.. Fedora Security, Xen Update, QEMU Issues, Memory Leak, Security Patches. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Sep 01, 2015 •Critical Fedora