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Fedora 16 : xen-4.1.3-1.fc16 (2012-11785)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 61616

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

update to 4.1.3 - fixes untrusted HVM guest can cause the dom0 to hang or crash [XSA-11, CVE-2012-3433] (#843582) remove some unnecessary cache flushing that slow things down (#841330)

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Solution

Update the affected xen package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843582

http://www.nessus.org/u?87303e28

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 61616

File Name: fedora_2012-11785.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/22/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

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: 8/13/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3433

BID: 54942

FEDORA: 2012-11785