Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities

Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Xen, the worst of which could allow for privilege escalation. xen 2017-05-26 2017-05-26 615980 local 4.7.2-r1 4.7.2-r1 4.7.2 4.7.2 4.7.2 4.7.2

Xen is a bare-metal hypervisor.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xen. Please review the CVE identifiers and Xen Security Advisory referenced below for details.

A local attacker could potentially execute arbitrary code with privileges of Xen (QEMU) process on the host, gain privileges on the host system, or cause a Denial of Service condition.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Xen users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/xen-4.7.2-r1:0"

All Xen Tools users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-emulation/xen-tools-4.7.2:0"

All Xen pvgrub users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      ">=app-emulation/xen-pvgrub-4.7.2:0"

CVE-2017-8903 CVE-2017-8904 CVE-2017-8905 BlueKnight BlueKnight