Fedora 18 : xen-4.2.1-7.fc18 (2013-2225)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 64678

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

adjust gcc 4.8 fixes guest using oxenstored can crash host or exhaust memory [XSA-38, CVE-2013-0215] (#907888), guest using AMD-Vi for PCI passthrough can cause denial of service [XSA-36, CVE-2013-0153] (#910914), fixes for gcc 4.8

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=906323

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910903

http://www.nessus.org/u?740bb9ac

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 64678

File Name: fedora_2013-2225.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/19/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0153, CVE-2013-0215

BID: 57742, 57745

FEDORA: 2013-2225