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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3847-1 xen -- security update

Date Reported:

09 May 2017

Affected Packages:

xen

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-9932, CVE-2016-10013, CVE-2016-10024, CVE-2017-7228.

More information:

Jan Beulich and Jann Horn discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Xen hypervisor, which may lead to privilege escalation, guest-to-host breakout, denial of service or information leaks.

In additional to the CVE identifiers listed above, this update also addresses the vulnerabilities announced as XSA-213, XSA-214 and XSA-215.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4.4.1-9+deb8u9.

For the upcoming stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 4.8.1-1+deb9u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.8.1-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your xen packages.