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Oracle Linux 5 : xen (ELSA-2012-0370)

high Nessus Plugin ID 68493

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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-2012-0370 advisory.

 [3.0.3-135.el5_8.2]
 - Fix broken timestamp log (rhbz 797836)

 [3.0.3-135.el5_8.1]
 - qemu-dm/e1000: bounds packet size against buffer size (rhbz 786862)
 - Use correct expansion in xen-network-common.sh (rhbz 797191)

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-2012-0370.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 68493

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2012-0370.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0029

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/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/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/8/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/27/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0029

BID: 51642

RHSA: 2012:0370