[ubuntu/xenial-updates] xen 4.6.5-0ubuntu1.1 (Accepted)

[Ubuntu Archive Robot]

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

Date: 2017-05-12 11:57:33.983289+00:00
Changed-By: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
Signed-By: Ubuntu Archive Robot <cjwatson+ubuntu-archive-robot at chiark.greenend.org.uk>
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xen/4.6.5-0ubuntu1.1
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