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Fedora 41 : xen (2025-933a9a977e)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 213990

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-933a9a977e advisory.

 work around debugedit bug to fix aarch64 builds xen-hypervisor %post doesn't load all needed grub2 modules update to xen-4.19.1 which includes Deadlock in x86 HVM standard VGA handling [XSA-463, CVE-2024-45818] libxl leaks data to PVH guests via ACPI tables [XSA-464, CVE-2024-45819]

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-2025-933a9a977e

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 213990

File Name: fedora_2025-933a9a977e.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/12/2025

Updated: 1/12/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

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-2024-45819

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:H/I:N/A:N

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-45818

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/9/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-45818, CVE-2024-45819

FEDORA: 2025-933a9a977e

IAVB: 2024-B-0095-S