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A xen security update has been released for Fedora 38.



SECURITY: Fedora 38 Update: xen-4.17.1-2.fc38


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-8334fe0ecb
2023-05-27 01:17:05.076788
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Name : xen
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 4.17.1
Release : 2.fc38
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:

Mishandling of guest SSBD selection on AMD hardware [XSA-431, CVE-2022-42336]
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ChangeLog:

* Tue May 16 2023 Michael Young - 4.17.1-2
- Mishandling of guest SSBD selection on AMD hardware
[XSA-431, CVE-2022-42336]
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2208357 - CVE-2022-42336 xen: Mishandling of guest SSBD selection on AMD hardware
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2208357
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-8334fe0ecb' 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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