Fedora 8 Update: xen-3.1.2-5.fc8

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-6940
2008-09-16 04:18:38
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Name        : xen
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 3.1.2
Release     : 5.fc8
URL         : http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/index.html
Summary     : Xen is a virtual machine monitor
Description :
This package contains the Xen hypervisor and Xen tools, needed to
run virtual machines on x86 systems, together with the kernel-xen*
packages.  Information on how to use Xen can be found at the Xen
project pages.

Virtualisation can be used to run multiple versions or multiple
Linux distributions on one system, or to test untrusted applications
in a sandboxed environment.

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Update Information:

Adds support for booting bzImage DomU kernels (e.g. Fedora 10)
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jul 30 2008 Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> - 3.1.2-5.fc8
- Support booting bzImage DomU kernel (e.g. Fedora 10)
* Fri Jun 13 2008 Markus Armbruster <armbru at redhat.com> - 3.1.2-4.fc8
- Fix pvfb SDL window (rhbz #449386)
- Correctly limit PVFB size (CVE-2008-1952)
* Wed May 14 2008 Markus Armbruster <armbru at redhat.com> - 3.1.2-3.fc8
- Disable QEMU image format auto-detection (CVE-2008-2004)
- Fix PVFB to validate frame buffer description (CVE-2008-1943, rhbz #443585)
- Fix PVFB to cope with bogus update requests (CVE-2008-1944, rhbz #442733)
* Sat Feb 23 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 3.1.2-2.fc8
- Fix block device extents check (rhbz #433560)
* Sat Dec  1 2007 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 3.1.2-1.fc8
- Upgrade to 3.1.2 bugfix release
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update xen' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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