glsa-201611-09.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201611-09">
  <title>Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Xen, the worst of which
    allows gaining of privileges on the host system.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">xen</product>
  <announced>2016-11-15</announced>
  <revised count="1">2016-11-15</revised>
  <bug>588780</bug>
  <bug>593198</bug>
  <bug>594850</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-emulation/xen" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.6.3-r3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.6.3-r3</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="app-emulation/xen-tools" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.6.3-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.6.3-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Xen is a bare-metal hypervisor.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xen. Please review the
      CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A malicious guest administrator could escalate their privileges on the
      host system or cause a Denial of Service.  Additionally, a malicious
      unprivileged guest user may be able to obtain or corrupt sensitive
      information (including cryptographic material) in other programs in the
      same guest.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Xen users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-emulation/xen-4.6.3-r3"
    </code>
    
    <p>All Xen tools users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-emulation/xen-tools-4.6.3-r2
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-6258">CVE-2016-6258</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-7092">CVE-2016-7092</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-7093">CVE-2016-7093</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-7094">CVE-2016-7094</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-7777">CVE-2016-7777</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-09-10T06:59:48Z">
    BlueKnight
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-11-15T07:42:10Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>