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Fedora 32 : xen (2020-5398bfb466)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 142835

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

update to xen-4.13.2

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x86 PV guest INVLPG-like flushes may leave stale TLB entries [XSA-286, CVE-2020-27674] (#1891092)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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Solution

Update the affected xen package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-5398bfb466

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 142835

File Name: fedora_2020-5398bfb466.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/12/2020

Updated: 11/20/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-27674

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:32, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/12/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/22/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-27674