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Fedora 23: 2015-11-08 Critical: Xen Security Fixes for VMs

nine security updates CVE-2015-7969 CVE-2015-7970 CVE-2015-7813 CVE-2015-7814 CVE-2015-7812 CVE-2015-7971 CVE-2015-7835 CVE-2015-7972. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-a931b02be2 2015-11-08 21:07:00.318057 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : xen Product : Fedora 23 Version : 4.5.1 Release : 14.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: nine security updates CVE-2015-7969 CVE-2015-7970 CVE-2015-7813 CVE-2015-7814 CVE-2015-7812 CVE-2015-7971 CVE-2015-7835 CVE-2015-7972 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1272519 - CVE-2015-7969 xen: leak of main per-domain vcpu pointer array https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1272519 [ 2 ] Bug #1272529 - CVE-2015-7970 xen: Long latency populate-on-demand operation is not preemptible on x86 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1272529 [ 3 ] Bug #1271626 - CVE-2015-7813 xen: Various unimplemented hypercalls log without rate limiting on ARM https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1271626 [ 4 ] Bug #1271630 - CVE-2015-7814 xen: Race between domain destruction and memory allocation decrease on ARM https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1271630 [ 5 ] Bug #1271621 - CVE-2015-7812 xen: Host crash when preempting a multicall on ARM https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1271621 [ 6 ] Bug #1272525 - CVE-2015-7971 xen: Some pmu and profiling hypercalls log without rate limiting on x86 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1272525 [ 7 ] Bug #1271971 - CVE-2015-7835 xen:Uncontrolled creation of large page mappings by PV guests on x86 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1271971 [ 8 ] Bug #1276120 - CVE-2015-7972 xen: populate-on-demand balloon size inaccuracy can crash guests on x86 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1276120 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list 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/ . Fedora 23 enhances the xen hypervisor's security model, addressing critical vulnerabilities while improving virtual machine reliability and performance.. Fedora Security,Patching Xen,VM Security Updates. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Nov 08, 2015 Fedora