[Oraclevm-errata] OVMSA-2015-0032 Important: Oracle VM 3.2 xen security update

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Wed Mar 11 09:03:48 PDT 2015


Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2015-0032

The following updated rpms for Oracle VM 3.2 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
xen-4.1.3-25.el5.127.30.x86_64.rpm
xen-devel-4.1.3-25.el5.127.30.x86_64.rpm
xen-tools-4.1.3-25.el5.127.30.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/oraclevm/server/3.2/SRPMS-updates/xen-4.1.3-25.el5.127.30.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[4.1.3-25.el5.127.30]
- x86emul: fully ignore segment override for register-only operations
   For ModRM encoded instructions with register operands we must not
   overwrite ea.mem.seg (if a - bogus in that case - segment override was
   present) as it aliases with ea.reg.
   This is CVE-2015-2151 / XSA-123.
   Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich at suse.com>
   Reviewed-by: Tim Deegan <tim at xen.org>
   Reviewed-by: Keir Fraser <keir at xen.org>
   Acked-by: Chuck Anderson <chuck.anderson at oracle.com>
   Reviewed-by: John Haxby <john.haxby at oracle.com> [bug 20664858] 
{CVE-2015-2151}




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