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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-8403
2011-06-21 16:08:55
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Name : xen
Product : Fedora 14
Version : 4.0.2
Release : 1.fc14
URL :
http://xen.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:
update to 4.0.2 - includes various bugfixes and fix for
[CVE-2011-1898] guest with pci passthrough can gain
privileged access to base domain
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Jun 15 2011 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.0.2-1
- update to 4.0.2
remove upstream patches localpy27fixes.patch xen.irq.fixes.patch
xen.xsave.disable.patch xen.8259afix.patch cve-2011-1583-4.0.patch
rebase localcleanups.patch
* Tue May 10 2011 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.0.1-11
- Overflows in kernel decompression can allow root on xen PV guest to gain
privileged access to base domain, or access to xen configuration info.
Lack of error checking could allow DoS attack from guest [CVE-2011-1583]
- Don't require /usr/bin/qemu-nbd as it isn't used at present.
- Fix issue with VGA passthrough (#694001)
* Mon Jan 31 2011 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.0.1-9
- Make libraries executable so that rpm gets dependencies right
* Sat Jan 29 2011 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.0.1-8
- Temporarily turn off some compile options so it will build on rawhide
* Fri Jan 28 2011 Michael Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> - 4.0.1-7
- ghost directories in /var/run (#656724)
- minor fixes to /usr/share/doc/xen-doc-4.?.?/misc/network_setup.txt (#653159)
/etc/xen/scripts/network-route, /etc/xen/scripts/vif-common.sh (#669747)
and /etc/sysconfig/modules/xen.modules (#656536)
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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
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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/keys
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