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Fedora 9 : kvm-65-15.fc9 (2008-11705)
high Nessus Plugin ID 35266
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog :
- Mon Dec 22 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta at redhat.com> - 65-15.fc9
- Fixed CVE-2008-2382.
- Thu Dec 4 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta at redhat.com> - 65-14.fc9
- Fixed bug that corrupted gnome-panel #474702
- Tue Dec 2 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta at redhat.com> - 65-12.fc9
- Properly set flags for interrupt return #464304
- Tue Nov 11 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta at redhat.com> - 65-11.fc9
- Fix CVE-2008-4539 #448525
- Mon Oct 13 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta at redhat.com> - 65-10.fc9
- Fix sysenter save in 64-bit hosts #457649
- Thu Aug 28 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta at redhat.com> - 65-9.fc9
- there's already a 65-8 tag
- Thu Aug 28 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta at redhat.com> - 65-8.fc9
- Fixes #459778
- Fixes #452355
- 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=466890
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477636
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 35266
File Name: fedora_2008-11705.nasl
Version: 1.18
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 12/26/2008
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous 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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kvm
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 12/24/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2007-1320, CVE-2008-2382, CVE-2008-4539
FEDORA: 2008-11705