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Fedora 39 : xen (2024-9e9f53d01d)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 192714

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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-2024-9e9f53d01d advisory.

 x86: Register File Data Sampling [XSA-452, CVE-2023-28746] GhostRace: Speculative Race Conditions [XSA-453, CVE-2024-2193]

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-2024-9e9f53d01d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 192714

File Name: fedora_2024-9e9f53d01d.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/30/2024

Updated: 11/15/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-28746

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/14/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/29/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28746, CVE-2024-2193

FEDORA: 2024-9e9f53d01d

IAVB: 2023-B-0090-S