[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: xen-3.1.2-2.fc7

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-2083
2008-02-28 21:12:19
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Name        : xen
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 3.1.2
Release     : 2.fc7
URL         : http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/index.html
Summary     : Xen is a virtual machine monitor
Description :
This package contains the Xen hypervisor and Xen tools, needed to
run virtual machines on x86 systems, together with the kernel-xen*
packages.  Information on how to use Xen can be found at the Xen
project pages.

Virtualisation can be used to run multiple versions or multiple
Linux distributions on one system, or to test untrusted applications
in a sandboxed environment.

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ChangeLog:

* Sat Feb 23 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 3.1.2-2.fc7
- Fix block device extents check (rhbz #433560)
* Sat Dec  1 2007 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 3.1.2-1.fc7
- Upgrade to 3.1.2 bugfix release
* Fri Oct 26 2007 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 3.1.0-8.fc7
- Fixed xenbaked tmpfile flaw (CVE-2007-3919)
* Wed Sep 26 2007 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 3.1.0-7.fc7
- Fixed rtl8139 checksum calculation for Vista (rhbz #308201)
* Wed Sep 26 2007 Chris Lalancette <clalance at redhat.com> - 3.1.0-6.fc7
- QEmu NE2000 overflow check - CVE-2007-1321
- Pygrub guest escape - CVE-2007-4993
* Mon Sep 24 2007 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 3.1.0-5.fc7
- Fix generation of manual pages (rhbz #250791)
- Fix 32-on-64 PVFB for FC6 legacy guests
* Mon Sep 24 2007 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 3.1.0-4.fc7
- Fix VMX assist IRQ handling (rhbz #279581)
* Sun Sep 23 2007 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 3.1.0-3.fc7
- Don't clobber the VIF type attribute in FV guests (rhbz #247122)
* Wed Aug  1 2007 Markus Armbruster <armbru at redhat.com>
- Put guest's native protocol ABI into xenstore, to provide for older
  kernels running 32-on-64.
- VNC keymap fixes
- Fix race conditions in LibVNCServer on client disconnect
* Mon Jun 11 2007 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 3.1.0-2.fc7
- Remove patch which kills VNC monitor
- Fix HVM save/restore file path to be /var/lib/xen instead of /tmp
- Don't spawn a bogus xen-vncfb daemon for HVM guests
* Fri May 25 2007 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 3.1.0-1.fc7
- Updated to official 3.1.0 tar.gz
- Fixed data corruption from VNC client disconnect (bz 241303)
* Thu May 17 2007 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 3.1.0-0.rc7.2.fc7
- Ensure xen-vncfb processes are cleanedup if guest quits (bz 240406)
- Tear down guest if device hotplug fails
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #433560 - Qemu insufficient block device address range checking
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433560
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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
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