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Fedora 15 : xen-4.1.2-6.fc15 (2012-1539)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 58018

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix buffer overflow in e1000 emulation for HVM guests [CVE-2012-0029], Start building xen's ocaml, fix a crash and turn a backtrace into an ordinary 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 xen package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e5e46e15

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 58018

File Name: fedora_2012-1539.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/20/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2012

Reference Information

BID: 51642

FEDORA: 2012-1539