Fedora 18 : xen-4.2.0-6.fc18 (2012-19652)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63239

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

A guest can cause xen to crash [XSA-26, CVE-2012-5510] (#883082) An HVM guest can cause xen to run slowly or crash [XSA-27, CVE-2012-5511] (#883084) A PV guest can cause xen to crash and might be able escalate privileges [XSA-29, CVE-2012-5513] (#883088) An HVM guest can cause xen to hang [XSA-30, CVE-2012-5514] (#883091) A guest can cause xen to hang [XSA-31, CVE-2012-5515] (#883092) A PV guest can cause xen to crash and might be able escalate privileges [XSA-32, CVE-2012-5525] (#883094)

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=877358

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=877365

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=877391

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=877404

http://www.nessus.org/u?a48c9946

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63239

File Name: fedora_2012-19652.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/12/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18, 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: 12/4/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5510, CVE-2012-5511, CVE-2012-5513, CVE-2012-5525

BID: 56794, 56796, 56797, 56805

FEDORA: 2012-19652