[SECURITY] Fedora 40 Update: xen-4.18.1-1.fc40
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2024-3a36322c4b
2024-03-23 00:20:56.402948
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Name : xen
Product : Fedora 40
Version : 4.18.1
Release : 1.fc40
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 xen-4.18.1
rebase xen.gcc12.fixes.patch
remove patches now included or superceded upstream
x86: Register File Data Sampling [XSA-452, CVE-2023-28746]
GhostRace: Speculative Race Conditions [XSA-453, CVE-2024-2193]
x86: shadow stack vs exceptions from emulation stubs - [XSA-451,
CVE-2023-46841] (#2266326)
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Mar 20 2024 Michael Young <m.a.young(a)durham.ac.uk> - 4.18.1-1
- update to xen-4.18.1
rebase xen.gcc12.fixes.patch
remove patches now included or superceded upstream
* Wed Mar 13 2024 Michael Young <m.a.young(a)durham.ac.uk> - 4.18.0-7
- x86: Register File Data Sampling [XSA-452, CVE-2023-28746]
- GhostRace: Speculative Race Conditions [XSA-453, CVE-2024-2193]
- additional patches so above applies cleanly
* Tue Feb 27 2024 Michael Young <m.a.young(a)durham.ac.uk> - 4.18.0-6
- x86: shadow stack vs exceptions from emulation stubs - [XSA-451,
CVE-2023-46841] (#2266326)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #2266325 - CVE-2023-46841 xen: x86 shadow stack vs exceptions from emulation
stubs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2266325
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-3a36322c4b' 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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