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Fedora 36 : xen (2023-dad0295b25)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 172112

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-dad0295b25 advisory.

 use OVMF.fd from new edk2-ovmf-xen package as ovmf.bin file built from edk2-ovmf package no longer supports xen (#2170930)

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 x86: Cross-Thread Return Address Predictions [XSA-426, CVE-2022-27672]

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected xen package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-dad0295b25

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 172112

File Name: fedora_2023-dad0295b25.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/6/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.8

Temporal Score: 2.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-27672

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:36

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/18/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/15/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-27672