RHSA-2012:1130Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: xen security update

Published
July 31, 2012
Last Modified
June 25, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2012-2625 →

📋 Description

CVE-2012-2625 — xen: pv bootloader doesn't check the size of the bzip2 or lzma compressed kernel

🎯 Affected products33

  • RHEL Desktop Multi OS (v. 5 client)
  • RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • xen-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.i386 as a component of RHEL Desktop Multi OS (v. 5 client)
  • xen-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.i386 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • xen-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.ia64 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • xen-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.src as a component of RHEL Desktop Multi OS (v. 5 client)
  • xen-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.src as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • xen-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • xen-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • xen-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.x86_64 as a component of RHEL Desktop Multi OS (v. 5 client)
  • xen-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.x86_64 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • xen-debuginfo-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.i386 as a component of RHEL Desktop Multi OS (v. 5 client)
  • xen-debuginfo-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.i386 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • xen-debuginfo-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • xen-debuginfo-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • xen-debuginfo-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.ia64 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • xen-debuginfo-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • xen-debuginfo-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.x86_64 as a component of RHEL Desktop Multi OS (v. 5 client)
  • xen-debuginfo-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.x86_64 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • xen-debuginfo-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • xen-debuginfo-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • xen-devel-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.i386 as a component of RHEL Desktop Multi OS (v. 5 client)
  • xen-devel-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.i386 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • xen-devel-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.ia64 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • xen-devel-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.x86_64 as a component of RHEL Desktop Multi OS (v. 5 client)
  • xen-devel-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.x86_64 as a component of RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 server)
  • xen-libs-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • xen-libs-0:3.0.3-135.el5_8.4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
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✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

🔗 References (4)