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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-689f240960
2016-10-13 17:12:25.216133
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Name        : xen
Product     : Fedora 23
Version     : 4.5.5
Release     : 2.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

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Update Information:

qemu-kvm: Directory traversal flaw in 9p virtio backend [CVE-2016-7116] qemu:
hw: net: Heap overflow in xlnx.xps-ethernetlite [CVE-2016-7161] CR0.TS and
CR0.EM not always honored for x86 HVM guest [XSA-190, CVE-2016-7777]  ----
update to 4.5.5
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1346349 - CVE-2016-7116 Qemu: 9p: directory traversal flaw in 9p virtio backend
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346349
  [ 2 ] Bug #1379297 - CVE-2016-7161 qemu: hw: net: Heap overflow in xlnx.xps-ethernetlite
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1379297
  [ 3 ] Bug #1377789 - CVE-2016-7777 xsa190 xen: CR0.TS and CR0.EM not always honored for x86 HVM guests (XSA-190)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1377789
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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 .

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Fedora 23: xen Security Update 2016-689f240960

October 14, 2016
qemu-kvm: Directory traversal flaw in 9p virtio backend [CVE-2016-7116] qemu: hw: net: Heap overflow in xlnx.xps-ethernetlite [CVE-2016-7161] CR0.TS and CR0.EM not always honored f...

Summary

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line

tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the

Xen hypervisor

Update Information:

qemu-kvm: Directory traversal flaw in 9p virtio backend [CVE-2016-7116] qemu: hw: net: Heap overflow in xlnx.xps-ethernetlite [CVE-2016-7161] CR0.TS and CR0.EM not always honored for x86 HVM guest [XSA-190, CVE-2016-7777] ---- update to 4.5.5

Change Log

References

[ 1 ] Bug #1346349 - CVE-2016-7116 Qemu: 9p: directory traversal flaw in 9p virtio backend https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346349 [ 2 ] Bug #1379297 - CVE-2016-7161 qemu: hw: net: Heap overflow in xlnx.xps-ethernetlite https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1379297 [ 3 ] Bug #1377789 - CVE-2016-7777 xsa190 xen: CR0.TS and CR0.EM not always honored for x86 HVM guests (XSA-190) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1377789

Update Instructions

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 .

Severity
Name : xen
Product : Fedora 23
Version : 4.5.5
Release : 2.fc23
URL : https://xenproject.org/
Summary : Xen is a virtual machine monitor

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