OVMSA-2016-0164 - xen security update
| Type: | SECURITY |
| Impact: | IMPORTANT |
| Release Date: | 2016-11-22 |
Description
[4.4.4-105.0.2.el6]
- BUILDINFO: commit=5e4dc2c5fbd14b065234c0b5e5b637e0e005fab7
- pygrub: Properly quote results, when returning them to the caller: (Ian Jackson) [Orabug: 25094263] {CVE-2016-9379} {CVE-2016-9380}
- x86emul: fix huge bit offset handling (Jan Beulich) [Orabug: 25088366] {CVE-2016-9383}
- x86/PV: writes of %fs and %gs base MSRs require canonical addresses (Jan Beulich) [Orabug: 25087576] {CVE-2016-9385}
- x86/HVM: don't load LDTR with VM86 mode attrs during task switch (Jan Beulich) [Orabug: 25087539] {CVE-2016-9382}
- x86/hvm: Fix the handling of non-present segments (Andrew Cooper) [Orabug: 25087515] {CVE-2016-9386}
[4.4.4-105.0.1.el6]
- BUILDINFO: commit=286bb9711e33d92767e8608bea4d3da6dbeeb710
- move TLB-flush filtering out into populate_physmap during vm creation (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 24951888]
- replace tlbflush check and operation with inline functions (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 24951888]
- x86/hvm: extend HVM cpuid leaf with vcpu id (Paul Durrant)
- x86/hvm: add HVM-specific hypervisor CPUID leaf (Boris Ostrovsky)
- xend: soft_reset support. (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk)
- (lib)xl: soft reset support (Vitaly Kuznetsov)
- tools/libxl: Save and restore EMULATOR_XENSTORE_DATA content (Andrew Cooper)
- libxl: introduce libxl__device_model_xs_path (Wei Liu)
- libxl: add LIBXL_DEVICE_MODEL_SAVE_FILE (Vitaly Kuznetsov)
- libxc: support XEN_DOMCTL_soft_reset operation (Vitaly Kuznetsov)
- arch-specific hooks for domain_soft_reset() (Vitaly Kuznetsov)
- flask: DOMCTL_soft_reset support (Vitaly Kuznetsov)
- introduce XEN_DOMCTL_soft_reset (Vitaly Kuznetsov)
- evtchn: make evtchn_reset() ready for soft reset (Vitaly Kuznetsov)
- evtchn: make EVTCHNOP_reset suitable for kexec (Vitaly Kuznetsov)
- xl: introduce enum domain_restart_type (Vitaly Kuznetsov)
- libxl: support SHUTDOWN_soft_reset shutdown reason (Vitaly Kuznetsov)
- introduce SHUTDOWN_soft_reset shutdown reason (Vitaly Kuznetsov)
- x86emul: honor guest CR0.TS and CR0.EM (Jan Beulich) [Orabug: 24697001] {CVE-2016-7777}
Related CVEs
Updated Packages
| Release/Architecture | Filename | sha256 | Superseded By Advisory | Channel Label |
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| Oracle VM 3.4 (x86_64) | xen-4.4.4-105.0.2.el6.src.rpm | 8d151cdcfbaaa739e508c3b109df2f5606f7f32554047e33e7de0b8ee5ed3ff6 | OVMBA-2024-0012 | ovm34_x86_64_latest |
| xen-4.4.4-105.0.2.el6.x86_64.rpm | 0f4edafc7f9b395dd7f5d8d36d6a8855f91d511dc5deb693b7230e0ecfcddfbc | OVMBA-2024-0012 | ovm34_x86_64_latest |
| xen-tools-4.4.4-105.0.2.el6.x86_64.rpm | f200077adc831cceef94c8cb30c9f5c3d520d67011e3d32e4e0435dd1af45387 | OVMBA-2024-0012 | ovm34_x86_64_latest |
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