Oracle Linux 5 : xen (ELSA-2011-1401)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68378

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2011-1401 advisory.

[3.0.3-132.el5_7.2]
- Release device backends before restarting guest on the destination machine (rhbz 743850)
- Fix SCSI buffer overflow and disable SCSI CD-ROMs (rhbz 736289)

[3.0.3-132.el5_7.1]
- hotplug: set netback/tap MTU to the same value as the bridge MTU (rhbz 738608)
- copy the MTU of the physical interface to the Xen bridge (rhbz 738610)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected xen, xen-devel and / or xen-libs packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2011-1401.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68378

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-1401.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-3346

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:xen, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:xen-libs

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/25/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/1/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3346

BID: 49545

RHSA: 2011:1401