[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: xen-4.1.2-6.fc15

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-1539
2012-02-10 21:14:35
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Name        : xen
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 4.1.2
Release     : 6.fc15
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:

Fix buffer overflow in e1000 emulation for HVM guests [CVE-2012-0029],
Start building xen's ocaml, fix a crash and turn a backtrace into an
ordinary error
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Feb  2 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-6
- Fix buffer overflow in e1000 emulation for HVM guests [CVE-2012-0029]
* Sat Jan 28 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-5
- Start building xen's ocaml libraries if appropriate unless --without ocaml
  was specified
- add some backported patches from xen unstable (via Debian) for some
  ocaml tidying and fixes
* Sun Jan 15 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-4
- actually apply the xend-pci-loop.patch
- compile fixes for gcc-4.7
* Wed Jan 11 2012 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-3
- Add xend-pci-loop.patch to stop xend crashing with weird PCI cards (#767742)
- avoid a backtrace if xend can't log to the standard file or a 
  temporary directory (part of #741042)
* Mon Nov 21 2011 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-2
- Fix lost interrupts on emulated devices
- stop xend crashing if its state files are empty at start up
- avoid a python backtrace if xend is run on bare metal
- update grub2 configuration after the old hypervisor has gone
- move blktapctrl to systemd
- Drop obsolete dom0-kernel.repo file
* Fri Oct 21 2011 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.2-1
- update to 4.1.2
  remove upstream patches xen-4.1-testing.23104 and xen-4.1-testing.23112
* Fri Oct 14 2011 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.1-8
- more pygrub improvements for grub2 on guest
* Thu Oct 13 2011 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.1-7
- make pygrub work better with GPT partitions and grub2 on guest
* Thu Sep 29 2011 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.1-5 4.1.1-6
- improve systemd functionality
* Wed Sep 28 2011 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.1-4
- lsb header fixes - xenconsoled shutdown needs xenstored to be running
- partial migration to systemd to fix shutdown delays
- update grub2 configuration after hypervisor updates
* Sun Aug 14 2011 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.1-3
- untrusted guest controlling PCI[E] device can lock up host CPU [CVE-2011-3131]
* Wed Jul 20 2011 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.1-2
- clean up patch to solve a problem with hvmloader compiled with gcc 4.6
* Wed Jun 15 2011 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.1-1
- update to 4.1.1
  includes various bugfixes and fix for [CVE-2011-1898] guest with pci
  passthrough can gain privileged access to base domain
- remove upstream cve-2011-1583-4.1.patch
* Mon May  9 2011 Michael Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> - 4.1.0-2
- 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.
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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/.

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