Bug 2559194 - CVE-2026-79611 xen: xen: Denial of Service of guest virtual machines via VM entry failure [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-79611 xen: xen: Denial of Service of guest virtual machines via VM e...
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Status: ON_QA
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xen
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
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Assignee: Michael Young
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2026-79611
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Reported: 2026-10-22 17:37 UTC by Oleg Sushchenko
Modified: 2026-10-31 02:44 UTC (History)
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Description Oleg Sushchenko 2026-10-22 17:37:11 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

For XSA-308 logic was introduced, as VMX VMEntry checks do not like the
exact combination of state which occurs when #DB in intercepted, Single
Stepping is active, and blocked by STI/MovSS is active, despite this being
a legitimate state to be in.  The resulting VMEntry failure is fatal to
the guest.

Sadly there is another special sub-case of the above, with branch tracing
enabled.  In that case the prior adjustment would still cause a VMentry
failure, as before fatal to the guest.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2026-10-30 23:27:47 UTC
FEDORA-2026-2b73a60d2c (xen-4.20.4-4.fc43) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-2b73a60d2c

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2026-10-31 02:44:27 UTC
FEDORA-2026-2b73a60d2c has been pushed to the Fedora 43 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-2b73a60d2c`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-2b73a60d2c

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.


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