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Fedora 31 : xen (2019-6aad703290)

high Nessus Plugin ID 132113

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

denial of service in find_next_bit() [XSA-307, CVE-2019-19581, CVE-2019-19582] (#1782211) denial of service in HVM/PVH guest userspace code [XSA-308, CVE-2019-19583] (#1782206) privilege escalation due to malicious PV guest [XSA-309, CVE-2019-19578] (#1782210) Further issues with restartable PV type change operations [XSA-310, CVE-2019-19580] (#1782207) vulnerability in dynamic height handling for AMD IOMMU pagetables [XSA-311, CVE-2019-19577] (#1782208)

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Solution

Update the affected xen package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-6aad703290

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 132113

File Name: fedora_2019-6aad703290.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/18/2019

Updated: 7/10/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-19578

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:31

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/11/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-19577, CVE-2019-19578, CVE-2019-19580, CVE-2019-19581, CVE-2019-19582, CVE-2019-19583

FEDORA: 2019-6aad703290

IAVB: 2019-B-0091-S