Fedora 7 : bochs-2.3-7.fc7 (2007-1778)

low Nessus Plugin ID 27733

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This security update of bochs fixes CVE-2007-2894 :

The emulated floppy disk controller in Bochs 2.3 allows local users of the guest operating system to cause a denial of service (virtual machine crash) via unspecified vectors, resulting in a divide-by-zero error.

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 packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?bdef273c

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 27733

File Name: fedora_2007-1778.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bochs-gdb, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bochs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bochs, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bochs-dlxlinux, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bochs-debugger

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/23/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-2894

FEDORA: 2007-1778