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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201611-09">
+ <title>Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
+ <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Xen, the worst of which
+ allows gaining of privileges on the host system.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">xen</product>
+ <announced>2016-11-15</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2016-11-15</revised>
+ <bug>588780</bug>
+ <bug>593198</bug>
+ <bug>594850</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-emulation/xen" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">4.6.3-r3</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">4.6.3-r3</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ <package name="app-emulation/xen-tools" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">4.6.3-r2</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">4.6.3-r2</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>Xen is a bare-metal hypervisor.</p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xen. Please review the
+ CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>A malicious guest administrator could escalate their privileges on the
+ host system or cause a Denial of Service. Additionally, a malicious
+ unprivileged guest user may be able to obtain or corrupt sensitive
+ information (including cryptographic material) in other programs in the
+ same guest.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All Xen users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-emulation/xen-4.6.3-r3"
+ </code>
+
+ <p>All Xen tools users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-emulation/xen-tools-4.6.3-r2
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-6258">CVE-2016-6258</uri>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-7092">CVE-2016-7092</uri>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-7093">CVE-2016-7093</uri>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-7094">CVE-2016-7094</uri>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-7777">CVE-2016-7777</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-09-10T06:59:48Z">
+ BlueKnight
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-11-15T07:42:10Z">b-man</metadata>
+</glsa>