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Fedora Core 5 : xen-3.0.3-5.fc5 (2007-344)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 24883
Synopsis
The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.Description
A flaw was found affecting the VNC server code in QEMU. On a fully virtualized guest VM, where qemu monitor mode is enabled, a user who had access to the VNC server could gain the ability to read arbitrary files as root in the host filesystem. (CVE-2007-0998)Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected xen and / or xen-debuginfo packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 24883
File Name: fedora_2007-344.nasl
Version: 1.15
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 3/26/2007
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen-debuginfo
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Patch Publication Date: 3/19/2007
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2007-0998