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Oracle Linux 5 : xen (ELSA-2013-0241)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68725

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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-2013-0241 advisory.

 [3.0.3-142.el5_9.1]
 - libxc: move error checking next to the function which returned the error (rhbz 876997)
 - libxc: builder: limit maximum size of kernel/ramdisk (rhbz 876997)

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-2013-0241.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68725

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-0241.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 10/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-4544

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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: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: 2/8/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/31/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4544

BID: 56289

RHSA: 2013:0241