Fedora 41: xen 2025-933a9a977e Security Advisory Updates
Summary
This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line
tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the
Xen hypervisor
Update Information:
work around debugedit bug to fix aarch64 builds xen-hypervisor %post doesn't load all needed grub2 modules update to xen-4.19.1 which includes Deadlock in x86 HVM standard VGA handling [XSA-463, CVE-2024-45818] libxl leaks data to PVH guests via ACPI tables [XSA-464, CVE-2024-45819]
Change Log
* Thu Jan 9 2025 Michael Young
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2330331 - xen-4.19.1 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330331
[ 2 ] Bug #2333330 - CVE-2024-45818 xen: Deadlock in x86 HVM standard VGA handling [fedora-41]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2333330
[ 3 ] Bug #2333333 - CVE-2024-45819 xen: libxl leaks data to PVH guests via ACPI tables [fedora-41]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2333333
[ 4 ] Bug #2335558 - Failure in loading multiboot2 prevent Xen from boot
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2335558
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-933a9a977e' 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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