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Oracle Linux 5 : xen (ELSA-2015-1002)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 83446

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2015-1002 advisory.

 [3.0.3-146.el5]
 - xen-fdc-force-the-fifo-access-to-be-in-bounds-of-the-all.patch
 - xen-FDC-Fix-buffer-overflow-Herv-Poussineau.patch
 - Resolves: bz#1219333 (xen: qemu: floppy disk controller flaw [rhel-5.11.z])

 [3.0.3-144.el5]
 - xm: Fix vcpu-pin complain for CPU number out of range (rhbz 955656)
 - libxc: Support set affinity for more than 64 CPUS (rhbz 955656)
 - libxc: Fixes for 'support affinity for more than 64 CPUS' (rhbz 955656)
 - xend: Fix bug of a cpu affinity vcpu-pin under ia32pa (rhbz 955656)
 - libxc: Fix cpu number overflow for vcpu-pin (rhbz 955656)

 [3.0.3-143.el5]
 - libxc: move error checking next to the function which returned the error (rhbz 870413)
 - libxc: builder: limit maximum size of kernel/ramdisk (rhbz 870413)
 - e1000: discard packets that are too long if !SBP and !LPE (rhbz 910844)
 - e1000: discard oversized packets based on SBP|LPE (rhbz 910844)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected xen, xen-devel and / or xen-libs packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-1002.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 83446

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-1002.nasl

Version: 2.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/14/2015

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-3456

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:xen, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:xen-libs

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/13/2015

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3456

BID: 74640

RHSA: 2015:1002