Fedora 17 : xen-4.1.5-8.fc17 (2013-11785)

high Nessus Plugin ID 67324

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

add upstream patch for PCI passthrough problems after XSA-46 xenstore permissions not set correctly by libxl [XSA-57]

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=971503

http://www.nessus.org/u?da2e93dd

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 67324

File Name: fedora_2013-11785.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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: 6/27/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2211

BID: 60721

FEDORA: 2013-11785