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Fedora 9 : kvm-65-7.fc9 (2008-4386)

high Nessus Plugin ID 32461

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Tue May 27 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta at redhat.com> - 65-7.fc9

 - Fix the build

 - Tue May 27 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta at redhat.com> - 65-6.fc9

 - Fix Cirrus heap overflow vulnerability (#448525)

 - Fri May 23 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 65-5.fc9

 - Put PTY in rawmode

 - Tue May 20 2008 Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com>
 - 65-4.fc9

 - Re-enable patch to fix -kernel with virtio/extboot drives (#444578)

 - Fri May 16 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta at redhat.com> - 65-3.fc9

 - Fix problem with cirrus device that was breaking vnc connections (rhbz #446830)

 - Tue Apr 29 2008 Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com>
 - 65-2

 - Fix -kernel with virtio/extboot drives (#444578)

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 kvm package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237342

http://www.nessus.org/u?49e19dba

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 32461

File Name: fedora_2008-4386.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/29/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kvm, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/28/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-1320

BID: 23731

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2008-4386