RHEL 5 : xen (RHSA-2008:0194)

high Nessus Plugin ID 32354

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for xen.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2008:0194 advisory.

- xen xenmon.py / xenbaked insecure temporary file accesss (CVE-2007-3919)

- QEMU Buffer overflow via crafted net socket listen option (CVE-2007-5730)

- Qemu insufficient block device address range checking (CVE-2008-0928)

- PVFB backend fails to validate frontend's framebuffer description (CVE-2008-1943)

- PVFB SDL backend chokes on bogus screen updates (CVE-2008-1944)

- qemu/kvm/xen: qemu block format auto-detection vulnerability (CVE-2008-2004)

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 RHEL xen package based on the guidance in RHSA-2008:0194.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a291dad0

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=350421

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=360381

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433560

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435495

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443078

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443390

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444583

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0194

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 32354

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2008-0194.nasl

Version: 1.26

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/16/2008

Updated: 4/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-1944

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-5730

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xen, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xen-libs

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/28/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3919, CVE-2007-5730, CVE-2008-0928, CVE-2008-1943, CVE-2008-1944, CVE-2008-2004

BID: 23731

CWE: 377

RHSA: 2008:0194