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xen (4.6.5-0ubuntu1.1) xenial-security; urgency=low

  * Applying Xen Security Advisories:
    - XSA-206
      * xenstored: apply a write transaction rate limit
      * xenstored: Log when the write transaction rate limit bites
      * oxenstored: refactor putting response on wire
      * oxenstored: remove some unused parameters
      * oxenstored: refactor request processing
      * oxenstored: keep track of each transaction's operations
      * oxenstored: move functions that process simple operations
      * oxenstored: replay transaction upon conflict
      * oxenstored: log request and response during transaction replay
      * oxenstored: allow compilation prior to OCaml 3.12.0
      * oxenstored: comments explaining some variables
      * oxenstored: handling of domain conflict-credit
      * oxenstored: ignore domains with no conflict-credit
      * oxenstored: add transaction info relevant to history-tracking
      * oxenstored: support commit history tracking
      * oxenstored: only record operations with side-effects in history
      * oxenstored: discard old commit-history on txn end
      * oxenstored: track commit history
      * oxenstored: blame the connection that caused a transaction conflict
      * oxenstored: allow self-conflicts
      * oxenstored: do not commit read-only transactions
      * oxenstored: don't wake to issue no conflict-credit
      * oxenstored transaction conflicts: improve logging
      * oxenstored: trim history in the frequent_ops function
    - CVE-2017-7228 / XSA-212
      * memory: properly check guest memory ranges in XENMEM_exchange handling
    - XSA-213
      * multicall: deal with early exit conditions
    - XSA-214
      * x86: discard type information when stealing pages
    - XSA-215
      * x86: correct create_bounce_frame

 -- Stefan Bader <email address hidden>  Tue, 09 May 2017 15:09:37 +0200

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Uploaded by:
Stefan Bader
Sponsored by:
Marc Deslauriers
Uploaded to:
Xenial
Original maintainer:
Ubuntu Developers
Architectures:
amd64 arm64 armhf i386 all
Section:
kernel
Urgency:
Low Urgency

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Binary packages built by this source

libxen-4.6: Public libs for Xen

 This package contains the shared toolstack libraries for Xen.

libxen-4.6-dbgsym: debug symbols for package libxen-4.6

 This package contains the shared toolstack libraries for Xen.

libxen-dev: Public headers and libs for Xen

 This package contains the public headers and static libraries for Xen.
 .
 The libxenlight library is intended as a common base for all Xen toolstack
 developers. The libxlutil library contains additional helpers which may
 be useful to toolstack developers.
 .
 The libxenstore library allows userspace processes to interact with the
 XenStore database. XenStore is a shared database used for interdomain
 communication of configuration and status information. It is accessible
 to all domains running on the same Xen host. See
 http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XenStore for more information.
 .
 The libxenctrl and libxenguest libraries are internal libraries intended
 for use by the Xen toolstack and are not intended to be used directly.
 Toolstack authors should use libxenlight.

libxenstore3.0: Xenstore communications library for Xen

 This package contains the client library interface to XenStore. .

libxenstore3.0-dbgsym: debug symbols for package libxenstore3.0

 This package contains the client library interface to XenStore. .

xen-hypervisor-4.4-amd64: Transitional package for upgrade
xen-hypervisor-4.4-arm64: Transitional package for upgrade
xen-hypervisor-4.4-armhf: Transitional package for upgrade
xen-hypervisor-4.5-amd64: Transitional package for upgrade
xen-hypervisor-4.5-arm64: Transitional package for upgrade
xen-hypervisor-4.5-armhf: Transitional package for upgrade
xen-hypervisor-4.6-amd64: Xen Hypervisor on AMD64

 The hypervisor is the "core" for XEN itself. It gets booted by the boot
 loader and controls cpu and memory, sharing them between your
 administrative domain (Domain 0) and the virtual guest systems.
 .
 In order to boot a XEN system along with this package you also need a
 kernel specifically crafted to work as the Domain 0, mediating hardware
 access for XEN itself.

xen-hypervisor-4.6-arm64: Xen Hypervisor on ARM64

 The hypervisor is the "core" for XEN itself. It gets booted by the boot
 loader and controls cpu and memory, sharing them between your
 administrative domain (Domain 0) and the virtual guest systems.
 .
 In order to boot a XEN system along with this package you also need a
 kernel specifically crafted to work as the Domain 0, mediating hardware
 access for XEN itself.

xen-hypervisor-4.6-armhf: Xen Hypervisor on ARMHF

 The hypervisor is the "core" for XEN itself. It gets booted by the boot
 loader and controls cpu and memory, sharing them between your
 administrative domain (Domain 0) and the virtual guest systems.
 .
 In order to boot a XEN system along with this package you also need a
 kernel specifically crafted to work as the Domain 0, mediating hardware
 access for XEN itself.

xen-system-amd64: Xen System on AMD64 (meta-package)

 This package depends on the latest Xen hypervisor for use on AMD64 and the
 Xen utils.

xen-system-arm64: Xen System on ARM64 (meta-package)

 This package depends on the latest Xen hypervisor for use on ARM64 and the
 Xen utils.

xen-system-armhf: Xen System on ARMHF (meta-package)

 This package depends on the latest Xen hypervisor for use on ARMHF and the
 Xen utils.

xen-utils-4.6: XEN administrative tools

 The userspace tools to manage a system virtualized through the XEN virtual
 machine monitor.

xen-utils-4.6-dbgsym: debug symbols for package xen-utils-4.6

 The userspace tools to manage a system virtualized through the XEN virtual
 machine monitor.

xen-utils-common: Xen administrative tools - common files

 The userspace tools to manage a system virtualized through the Xen virtual
 machine monitor.
 .
 This package is only required on the host system (Domain 0) and not on the
 virtual guest systems (Domain U).

xenstore-utils: Xenstore command line utilities for Xen

 This package contains command line utilities for interacting with
 XenStore.
 .
 XenStore is a shared database used for interdomain communication of
 configuration and status information. It is accessible to all domains
 running on the same Xen host. See http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XenStore for
 more information.
 .
 In the common case these tools are used by the Xen toolstack running in
 domain0 (or a driver domain) however they may also be used in a guest
 domain to support local scripting which wants to communicate via XenStore.

xenstore-utils-dbgsym: debug symbols for package xenstore-utils

 This package contains command line utilities for interacting with
 XenStore.
 .
 XenStore is a shared database used for interdomain communication of
 configuration and status information. It is accessible to all domains
 running on the same Xen host. See http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XenStore for
 more information.
 .
 In the common case these tools are used by the Xen toolstack running in
 domain0 (or a driver domain) however they may also be used in a guest
 domain to support local scripting which wants to communicate via XenStore.