June 12, 2012

The Xen security team has released three security advisories regarding the Xen hypervisor. AWS customers are not affected by these issues.

Information on the advisories can be found below:

http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-06/msg00001.html
Xen Security Advisory 7 (CVE-2012-0217) - PV privilege escalation

http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-06/msg00003.html
Xen Security Advisory 8 (CVE-2012-0218) - syscall/enter guest DoS

http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-06/msg00002.html
Xen Security Advisory 9 (CVE-2012-2934) - PV guest host DoS (AMD erratum #121)