Important: xen security update

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

• CVE-2016-9637

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important