Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4050-1 xen -- security update

Date Reported:

28 Nov 2017

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-14316, CVE-2017-14317, CVE-2017-14318, CVE-2017-14319, CVE-2017-15588, CVE-2017-15589, CVE-2017-15590, CVE-2017-15592, CVE-2017-15593, CVE-2017-15594, CVE-2017-15595, CVE-2017-15597, CVE-2017-17044, CVE-2017-17045, CVE-2017-17046.

More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor, which could result in denial of service, information leaks, privilege escalation or the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie) a separate update will be released.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 4.8.2+xsa245-0+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your xen packages.

For the detailed security status of xen please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/xen