This release fixes the following critical vulnerabilities:
CVE-2013-1918 / XSA-45: Several long latency operations are not
preemptible
CVE-2013-1952 / XSA-49: VT-d interrupt remapping source validation flaw
for bridges
CVE-2013-2076 / XSA-52: Information leak on XSAVE/XRSTOR capable AMD CPUs
CVE-2013-2077 / XSA-53: Hypervisor crash due to missing exception
recovery on XRSTOR
CVE-2013-2078 / XSA-54: Hypervisor crash due to missing exception
recovery on XSETBV
CVE-2013-2194, CVE-2013-2195, CVE-2013-2196 / XSA-55: Multiple
vulnerabilities in libelf PV kernel handling
CVE-2013-2072 / XSA-56: Buffer overflow in xencontrol Python bindings
affecting xend
CVE-2013-2211 / XSA-57: libxl allows guest write access to sensitive
console related xenstore keys
CVE-2013-1432 / XSA-58: Page reference counting error due to
XSA-45/CVE-2013-1918 fixes
XSA-61: libxl partially sets up HVM passthrough even with disabled iommu
This release contains many bug fixes and improvements. The highlights are:
addressing a regression from the fix for XSA-21
addressing a regression from the fix for XSA-46
bug fixes to low level system state handling, including certain
hardware errata workarounds
(CVE-2013-1918 and CVE-2013-1952 were patched in pkgsrc before)
