Fedora 9 : kvm-65-15.fc9 (2008-11705)

high Nessus Plugin ID 35266

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

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---------- ChangeLog :

- Mon Dec 22 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta at redhat.com> - 65-15.fc9

- Fixed CVE-2008-2382.

- Thu Dec 4 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta at redhat.com> - 65-14.fc9

- Fixed bug that corrupted gnome-panel #474702

- Tue Dec 2 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta at redhat.com> - 65-12.fc9

- Properly set flags for interrupt return #464304

- Tue Nov 11 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta at redhat.com> - 65-11.fc9

- Fix CVE-2008-4539 #448525

- Mon Oct 13 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta at redhat.com> - 65-10.fc9

- Fix sysenter save in 64-bit hosts #457649

- Thu Aug 28 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta at redhat.com> - 65-9.fc9

- there's already a 65-8 tag

- Thu Aug 28 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta at redhat.com> - 65-8.fc9

- Fixes #459778

- Fixes #452355

- Tue May 27 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta at redhat.com> - 65-7.fc9

- Fix the build

- Tue May 27 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta at redhat.com> - 65-6.fc9

- Fix Cirrus heap overflow vulnerability (#448525)

- Fri May 23 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 65-5.fc9

- Put PTY in rawmode

- Tue May 20 2008 Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com>
- 65-4.fc9

- Re-enable patch to fix -kernel with virtio/extboot drives (#444578)

- Fri May 16 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta at redhat.com> - 65-3.fc9

- Fix problem with cirrus device that was breaking vnc connections (rhbz #446830)

- Tue Apr 29 2008 Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com>
- 65-2

- Fix -kernel with virtio/extboot drives (#444578)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected kvm package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466890

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477636

http://www.nessus.org/u?64d81e1d

http://www.nessus.org/u?8db883e7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 35266

File Name: fedora_2008-11705.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/26/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kvm, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/24/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-1320, CVE-2008-2382, CVE-2008-4539

BID: 23731, 32910

CWE: 119, 399

FEDORA: 2008-11705