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Fedora 26 : xen (2017-5c6a9b07a3)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 101638

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

xen: various flaws (#1463247) blkif responses leak backend stack data [XSA-216] page transfer may allow PV guest to elevate privilege [XSA-217] Races in the grant table unmap code [XSA-218] x86:
insufficient reference counts during shadow emulation [XSA-219] x86:
PKRU and BND* leakage between vCPU-s [XSA-220] NULL pointer deref in event channel poll [XSA-221] (#1463231) stale P2M mappings due to insufficient error checking [XSA-222] ARM guest disabling interrupt may crash Xen [XSA-223] grant table operations mishandle reference counts [XSA-224] arm: vgic: Out-of-bound access when sending SGIs [XSA-225]

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Solution

Update the affected xen package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-5c6a9b07a3

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 101638

File Name: fedora_2017-5c6a9b07a3.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/17/2017

Updated: 6/3/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/7/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/5/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-10911, CVE-2017-10912, CVE-2017-10913, CVE-2017-10915, CVE-2017-10916, CVE-2017-10917, CVE-2017-10918, CVE-2017-10919, CVE-2017-10920, CVE-2017-10923

FEDORA: 2017-5c6a9b07a3

IAVB: 2017-B-0074-S