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Fedora 17 : xen-4.1.2-20.fc17 (2012-9386)

high Nessus Plugin ID 59692

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

64-bit PV guest privilege escalation vulnerability [CVE-2012-0217], guest denial of service on syscall/sysenter exception generation [CVE-2012-0218], PV guest host Denial of Service [CVE-2012-2934] Enable xenconsoled by default under systemd, adjust xend.service systemd file to avoid selinux problems

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829732

http://www.nessus.org/u?c5a16806

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 59692

File Name: fedora_2012-9386.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/26/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/14/2012

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2012-9386