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A xen security update has been released for Fedora 36.



SECURITY: Fedora 36 Update: xen-4.16.3-3.fc36


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-dad0295b25
2023-03-06 00:53:42.471265
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Name : xen
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 4.16.3
Release : 3.fc36
URL :   http://xen.org/
Summary : Xen is a virtual machine monitor
Description :
This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line
tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the
Xen hypervisor

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Update Information:

use OVMF.fd from new edk2-ovmf-xen package as ovmf.bin file built from edk2-ovmf
package no longer supports xen (#2170930) ---- x86: Cross-Thread Return
Address Predictions [XSA-426, CVE-2022-27672]
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ChangeLog:

* Sat Feb 18 2023 Michael Young - 4.16.3-3
- use OVMF.fd from new edk2-ovmf-xen package as ovmf.bin file
built from edk2-ovmf package no longer supports xen (#2170930)
* Wed Feb 15 2023 Michael Young - 4.16.3-2
- x86: Cross-Thread Return Address Predictions [XSA-426, CVE-2022-27672]
(backported to xen-4.16)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2170930 - Please configure xen to use new edk2-ovmf-xen package
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170930
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-dad0295b25' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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