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Fedora 40 : xen (2024-3a36322c4b)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194569

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-3a36322c4b advisory.

 update to xen-4.18.1 rebase xen.gcc12.fixes.patch remove patches now included or superceded upstream

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

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 x86: shadow stack vs exceptions from emulation stubs - [XSA-451, CVE-2023-46841] (#2266326)

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-2024-3a36322c4b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 194569

File Name: fedora_2024-3a36322c4b.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/29/2024

Updated: 11/14/2024

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-2024-2193

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-28746

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40

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: 3/20/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/12/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-28746, CVE-2023-46841, CVE-2024-2193

FEDORA: 2024-3a36322c4b

IAVB: 2023-B-0090-S