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Fedora 17 : xen-4.1.3-5.fc17 (2012-17204)

low Nessus Plugin ID 62874

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

limit the size of guest kernels and ramdisks to avoid running out of memory on dom0 during guest boot [XSA-25, CVE-2012-4544] (#870414)

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=870412

http://www.nessus.org/u?68a69698

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 62874

File Name: fedora_2012-17204.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/12/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.8

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/30/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4544

BID: 56289

FEDORA: 2012-17204