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ELSA-2012-1130 Moderate: Oracle Linux xen security update

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ELSA-2012-1130 Moderate: Oracle Linux xen security update

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/01/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/07/2012
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

The PyGrub boot loader in Xen unstable before changeset 25589:60f09d1ab1fe, 4.2.x, and 4.1.x allows local para-virtualized guest users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large (1) bzip2 or (2) lzma compressed kernel image.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-xen
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-xen-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-xen-libs

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