Issued:
2016-12-20
Updated:
2016-12-20

RHSA-2016:2963 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Important: xen security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for xen is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives
a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE
link(s) in the References section.

Description

Xen is a virtual machine monitor

Security Fix(es):

  • An out of bounds array access issue was found in the Xen virtual machine
    monitor, built with the QEMU ioport support. It could occur while doing ioport
    read/write operations, if guest was to supply a 32bit address parameter. A
    privileged guest user/process could use this flaw to potentially escalate their
    privileges on a host. (CVE-2016-9637)

Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in
this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386

Fixes

  • BZ - 1397043 - CVE-2016-9637 XSA199 Xen: qemu ioport out-of-bounds array access (XSA-199)

CVEs

References

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

SRPM
xen-3.0.3-148.el5_11.src.rpm SHA-256: a5d69c66736129886439589f23a85de1a3ed21766e70476a28c03c746abc2959
x86_64
xen-3.0.3-148.el5_11.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 8d7be14688eabb7bec2989927af6f71bdf7065e2923401729198a16a7c60ae19
xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: 7ea894b3d862f2208f87c1451b042b9bdf4b94f85a415dc817cfc5934ef76e67
xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: 7ea894b3d862f2208f87c1451b042b9bdf4b94f85a415dc817cfc5934ef76e67
xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e21e86632a75504cac3db4732794bcedc1e213e868a6b2f85c5c926256530466
xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e21e86632a75504cac3db4732794bcedc1e213e868a6b2f85c5c926256530466
xen-devel-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: 861afccfcc83823b265eadc936a3d32cd306f9d88a8bf80519be92ccec4e7ca3
xen-devel-3.0.3-148.el5_11.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 278ad62b3e2e01029680d4c33f7ce7abe75ab0a76a558af833a54f3652409f4d
xen-libs-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: 91c7b831b17ac326934831acfef82890680781575296fe39a7d3a10423f46f53
xen-libs-3.0.3-148.el5_11.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d67f8a99ab3d5cc3cafeeaa5a8258074e6eb568fe38f2f621906d5ad8b7f3b91
ia64
xen-3.0.3-148.el5_11.ia64.rpm SHA-256: d01127ae0ef443a52801db3c3cf6ceffbc12f9e02e97b7dfd74bd77c51824faa
xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.ia64.rpm SHA-256: 7500606dd933ea3fd7016b78bc8bd0eeafe9af3eba6a7c0681faaf7e30ea2d91
xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.ia64.rpm SHA-256: 7500606dd933ea3fd7016b78bc8bd0eeafe9af3eba6a7c0681faaf7e30ea2d91
xen-devel-3.0.3-148.el5_11.ia64.rpm SHA-256: 147470e46ad54c2357814d453a6060a16784f41ae83fde7055e23df14473cfd0
xen-libs-3.0.3-148.el5_11.ia64.rpm SHA-256: d524eb4cb694db38f8a447f08b5f244d97b258f691d234befc508ebdd12dcd66
i386
xen-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: ccd2830ce04f627268b63b8795d53149055339f6292969c9369623f7e2bad25c
xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: 7ea894b3d862f2208f87c1451b042b9bdf4b94f85a415dc817cfc5934ef76e67
xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: 7ea894b3d862f2208f87c1451b042b9bdf4b94f85a415dc817cfc5934ef76e67
xen-devel-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: 861afccfcc83823b265eadc936a3d32cd306f9d88a8bf80519be92ccec4e7ca3
xen-libs-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: 91c7b831b17ac326934831acfef82890680781575296fe39a7d3a10423f46f53

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5

SRPM
xen-3.0.3-148.el5_11.src.rpm SHA-256: a5d69c66736129886439589f23a85de1a3ed21766e70476a28c03c746abc2959
x86_64
xen-3.0.3-148.el5_11.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 8d7be14688eabb7bec2989927af6f71bdf7065e2923401729198a16a7c60ae19
xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: 7ea894b3d862f2208f87c1451b042b9bdf4b94f85a415dc817cfc5934ef76e67
xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: 7ea894b3d862f2208f87c1451b042b9bdf4b94f85a415dc817cfc5934ef76e67
xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e21e86632a75504cac3db4732794bcedc1e213e868a6b2f85c5c926256530466
xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e21e86632a75504cac3db4732794bcedc1e213e868a6b2f85c5c926256530466
xen-devel-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: 861afccfcc83823b265eadc936a3d32cd306f9d88a8bf80519be92ccec4e7ca3
xen-devel-3.0.3-148.el5_11.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 278ad62b3e2e01029680d4c33f7ce7abe75ab0a76a558af833a54f3652409f4d
xen-libs-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: 91c7b831b17ac326934831acfef82890680781575296fe39a7d3a10423f46f53
xen-libs-3.0.3-148.el5_11.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d67f8a99ab3d5cc3cafeeaa5a8258074e6eb568fe38f2f621906d5ad8b7f3b91
i386
xen-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: ccd2830ce04f627268b63b8795d53149055339f6292969c9369623f7e2bad25c
xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: 7ea894b3d862f2208f87c1451b042b9bdf4b94f85a415dc817cfc5934ef76e67
xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: 7ea894b3d862f2208f87c1451b042b9bdf4b94f85a415dc817cfc5934ef76e67
xen-devel-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: 861afccfcc83823b265eadc936a3d32cd306f9d88a8bf80519be92ccec4e7ca3
xen-libs-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: 91c7b831b17ac326934831acfef82890680781575296fe39a7d3a10423f46f53

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5

SRPM
xen-3.0.3-148.el5_11.src.rpm SHA-256: a5d69c66736129886439589f23a85de1a3ed21766e70476a28c03c746abc2959
x86_64
xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: 7ea894b3d862f2208f87c1451b042b9bdf4b94f85a415dc817cfc5934ef76e67
xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: e21e86632a75504cac3db4732794bcedc1e213e868a6b2f85c5c926256530466
xen-libs-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: 91c7b831b17ac326934831acfef82890680781575296fe39a7d3a10423f46f53
xen-libs-3.0.3-148.el5_11.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d67f8a99ab3d5cc3cafeeaa5a8258074e6eb568fe38f2f621906d5ad8b7f3b91
i386
xen-debuginfo-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: 7ea894b3d862f2208f87c1451b042b9bdf4b94f85a415dc817cfc5934ef76e67
xen-libs-3.0.3-148.el5_11.i386.rpm SHA-256: 91c7b831b17ac326934831acfef82890680781575296fe39a7d3a10423f46f53

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