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Fedora 18 : xen-4.2.1-5.fc18 (2013-1434)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 64418

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Two security fixes from nested virtualization (CVE-2013-0151 CVE-2013-0152), restore status option to xend which is used by libvirt Buffer overflow when processing large packets in qemu e1000 device driver [XSA-41, CVE-2012-6075]

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=893144

http://www.nessus.org/u?256cca6d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 64418

File Name: fedora_2013-1434.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/4/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/24/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0151, CVE-2013-0152

FEDORA: 2013-1434