[Oraclevm-errata] OVMSA-2012-0021 Important: Oracle VM 3.1 xen security and bug fix update

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Wed Jun 13 16:30:03 PDT 2012


Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2012-0021

The following updated rpms for Oracle VM 3.1 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
xen-4.1.2-18.el5.3.x86_64.rpm
xen-devel-4.1.2-18.el5.3.x86_64.rpm
xen-tools-4.1.2-18.el5.3.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/oraclevm/server/3.1/SRPMS-updates/xen-4.1.2-18.el5.3.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[4.1.2-18.el5.3 ]
- x86-64: detect processors subject to AMD erratum #121 and refuse to 
boot{CVE-2006-0744}
   Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich at suse.com>
   Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell at citrix.com>
   Backported-by: Joe Jin <joe.jin at oracle.com> [bug 13993151]

[4.1.2-18.el5.2 ]
- guest denial of service on syscall/sysenter exception generation 
{CVE-2012-0217},{CVE-2012-0218}
   Backported-by: Joe Jin <joe.jin at oracle.com>  [bug 13993151]

[4.1.2-18.el5.1 ]
- Remove unecessary balloon retries on vm create.
   This is a backport from fix for bug 14143327.
   Signed-off-by: Zhigang Wang <zhigang.x.wang at oracle.com>
   Backported-by: Joe Jin <joe.jin at oracle.com> [bug 14143340]




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