Fedora 18 : xen-4.2.2-3.fc18 (2013-7426)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66434

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

PV guests can use non-preemptible long latency operations to mount a denial of service attack on the whole system [XSA-45, CVE-2013-1918], malicious guests can inject interrupts through bridge devices to mount a denial of service attack on the whole system [XSA-49, CVE-2013-1952]

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=956163

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956309

http://www.nessus.org/u?99929957

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66434

File Name: fedora_2013-7426.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/15/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

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: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/5/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1918, CVE-2013-1952

BID: 59615, 59617

FEDORA: 2013-7426