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Fedora 26 : xen (2018-0746dac335)

high Nessus Plugin ID 108492

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

update Xen page-table isolation (XPTI) mitigation and add Branch Target Injection (BTI) mitigation for XSA-254 DoS via non-preemptable L3/L4 pagetable freeing [XSA-252] (#1549568) grant table v2 -> v1 transition may crash Xen [XSA-255] (#1549570) x86 PVH guest without LAPIC may DoS the host [XSA-256] (#1549572)

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Solution

Update the affected xen package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-0746dac335

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 108492

File Name: fedora_2018-0746dac335.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/21/2018

Updated: 1/28/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-7541

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/20/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/27/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-7540, CVE-2018-7541, CVE-2018-7542