news 28 Posted December 20, 2016 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Important: xen security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:2963-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2963.html Issue date: 2016-12-20 CVE Names: CVE-2016-9637 ===================================================================== 1. Summary: An update for xen is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Multi OS (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, x86_64 3. Description: Xen is a virtual machine monitor Security Fix(es): * An out of bounds array access issue was found in the Xen virtual machine monitor, built with the QEMU ioport support. It could occur while doing ioport read/write operations, if guest was to supply a 32bit address parameter. A privileged guest user/process could use this flaw to potentially escalate their privileges on a host. (CVE-2016-9637) Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue. 4. Solution: For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/): 1397043 - CVE-2016-9637 XSA199 Xen: qemu ioport out-of-bounds array access (XSA-199) 6. Package List: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client): Source: xen-3.0.3-148.el5_11.src.rpm i386: xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm xen-libs-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm x86_64: xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.x86_64.rpm xen-libs-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm xen-libs-3.0.3-148.el5_11.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Multi OS (v. 5 client): Source: xen-3.0.3-148.el5_11.src.rpm i386: xen-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm xen-devel-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm x86_64: xen-3.0.3-148.el5_11.x86_64.rpm xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.x86_64.rpm xen-devel-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm xen-devel-3.0.3-148.el5_11.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server): Source: xen-3.0.3-148.el5_11.src.rpm i386: xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm xen-libs-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm ia64: xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.ia64.rpm xen-libs-3.0.3-148.el5_11.ia64.rpm x86_64: xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.x86_64.rpm xen-libs-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm xen-libs-3.0.3-148.el5_11.x86_64.rpm Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization (v. 5 server): Source: xen-3.0.3-148.el5_11.src.rpm i386: xen-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm xen-devel-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm ia64: xen-3.0.3-148.el5_11.ia64.rpm xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.ia64.rpm xen-devel-3.0.3-148.el5_11.ia64.rpm x86_64: xen-3.0.3-148.el5_11.x86_64.rpm xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.x86_64.rpm xen-devel-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm xen-devel-3.0.3-148.el5_11.x86_64.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/ 7. References: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9637 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ Copyright 2016 Red Hat, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iD8DBQFYWU3XXlSAg2UNWIIRAm1fAKCqoXKBBxTgP0iDtpGJMMFRF8wkPQCfRJ1L G2OeLcJ0oKyjQf6y901pd10= =vFHR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Share this post Link to post
