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Fedora 38 : xen (2024-a676697123)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 193901

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-a676697123 advisory.

 x86: Native Branch History Injection [XSA-456, CVE-2024-2201] update to xen 4.17.4, remove patches now included upstream rebase xen.gcc12.fixes.patch x86 HVM hypercalls may trigger Xen bug check [XSA-454, CVE-2023-46842] x86: Incorrect logic for BTC/SRSO mitigations [XSA-455, CVE-2024-31142]

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-a676697123

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 193901

File Name: fedora_2024-a676697123.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/25/2024

Updated: 12/20/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-31142

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-46842

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/10/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46842, CVE-2024-2201, CVE-2024-31142

FEDORA: 2024-a676697123

IAVB: 2024-B-0200