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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201702-27">
+ <title>Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
+ <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Xen, the worst of which
+ could lead to the execution of arbitrary code on the host system.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">xen</product>
+ <announced>2017-02-21</announced>
+ <revised>2017-02-21: 1</revised>
+ <bug>607840</bug>
+ <bug>609160</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-emulation/xen" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">4.7.1-r5</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">4.7.1-r5</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ <package name="app-emulation/xen-tools" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">4.7.1-r6</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">4.7.1-r6</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 and Xen Security Advisory referenced below for details.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>A local attacker could potentially execute arbitrary code with
+ privileges of Xen (QEMU) process on the host, gain privileges on the host
+ system, cause a Denial of Service condition, or obtain sensitive
+ information.
+ </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-4.7.1-r5"
+ </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-4.7.1-r6"
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-2615">CVE-2017-2615</uri>
+ <uri link="https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-207.html">XSA-207</uri>
+ <uri link="https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-208.html">XSA-208</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-02-16T18:01:38Z">whissi</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-02-21T00:04:19Z">whissi</metadata>
+</glsa>