Bug 907888 - CVE-2013-0215 xen: oxenstored incorrect handling of certain Xenbus ring states [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2013-0215 xen: oxenstored incorrect handling of certain Xenbus ring state...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xen
Version: 18
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Young
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2013-0215
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Reported: 2013-02-05 13:29 UTC by Petr Matousek
Modified: 2013-02-18 06:48 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-02-16 01:23:31 UTC
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Description Petr Matousek 2013-02-05 13:29:22 UTC
This is an automatically created tracking bug!  It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of Fedora.

For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
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Comment 1 Petr Matousek 2013-02-05 13:29:33 UTC
Please use the following update submission link to create the Bodhi
request for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well
as this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get
updated when new packages are pushed to stable.

Please also ensure that the "Close bugs when update is stable" option
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Bodhi update submission link:
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Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2013-02-06 00:09:42 UTC
xen-4.2.1-6.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xen-4.2.1-6.fc18

Comment 3 Michael Young 2013-02-06 00:16:43 UTC
Note that in Fedora we are still using xenstored by default rather than the oxenstored alternative which is affected by this bug.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2013-02-06 21:31:22 UTC
xen-4.1.4-4.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xen-4.1.4-4.fc17

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-02-06 22:01:47 UTC
xen-4.1.4-4.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xen-4.1.4-4.fc16

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2013-02-08 01:57:08 UTC
Package xen-4.1.4-4.fc16:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing xen-4.1.4-4.fc16'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-1991/xen-4.1.4-4.fc16
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2013-02-08 22:15:06 UTC
xen-4.2.1-7.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xen-4.2.1-7.fc18

Comment 8 Petr Matousek 2013-02-15 11:49:19 UTC
Michael,

version three of the original Xen Security Advisory has been published [1]. It refers to incremental patch [2] that should fix issue introduced by the CVE fix.

  [1] http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q1/315
  [2] http://xenbits.xen.org/hg/staging/xen-unstable.hg/rev/759574df84a6

Please consider including the fix in the Fedora xen packages.

Thanks,
--
Petr Matousek / Red Hat Security Response Team

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2013-02-16 01:23:34 UTC
xen-4.1.4-4.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Michael Young 2013-02-16 09:58:04 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> Michael,
> 
> version three of the original Xen Security Advisory has been published [1].
> It refers to incremental patch [2] that should fix issue introduced by the
> CVE fix.
> 
>   [1] http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q1/315
>   [2] http://xenbits.xen.org/hg/staging/xen-unstable.hg/rev/759574df84a6
> 
> Please consider including the fix in the Fedora xen packages.
> 
> Thanks,
> --
> Petr Matousek / Red Hat Security Response Team

The revised patch is in xen-4.2.1-8.fc19 xen-4.2.1-8.fc18 and xen-4.1.4-5.fc17.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2013-02-18 06:48:59 UTC
xen-4.2.1-7.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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