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Fedora 16 : xen-4.1.2-9.fc16 (2012-11190)

low Nessus Plugin ID 61423

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

in rare circumstances an unprivileged user can crash an HVM guest [XSA-10] (#843766)

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=843570

http://www.nessus.org/u?703aabca

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 61423

File Name: fedora_2012-11190.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/6/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/28/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3432

BID: 54691

FEDORA: 2012-11190