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Fedora 39 : xen (2023-fa01e4c6ba)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 186457

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-fa01e4c6ba advisory.

 x86/AMD: mismatch in IOMMU quarantine page table levels [XSA-445, CVE-2023-46835] x86: BTC/SRSO fixes not fully effective [XSA-446, CVE-2023-46836]

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues 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-fa01e4c6ba

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 186457

File Name: fedora_2023-fa01e4c6ba.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/29/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-46835

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:39, 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: 11/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/15/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46835, CVE-2023-46836

FEDORA: 2023-fa01e4c6ba

IAVB: 2023-B-0090-S