Debian DLA-1300-1 : xen security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 107134

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor, which could result in denial of service, informations leaks or privilege escalation.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 4.1.6.lts1-13.

We recommend that you upgrade your xen packages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00003.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/xen

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 107134

File Name: debian_DLA-1300.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/6/2018

Updated: 1/11/2021

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxenstore3.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xen-utils-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xen-docs-4.1, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxen-ocaml-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xen-system-amd64, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xenstore-utils, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xen-hypervisor-4.1-i386, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxen-4.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xen-hypervisor-4.1-amd64, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xen-utils-4.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xen-system-i386, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxen-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxen-ocaml

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 3/6/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-7540, CVE-2018-7541