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Fedora 19 : xen-4.2.3-1.fc19 (2013-16357)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 69966

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

update to xen-4.2.3 includes fix for 'libxl partially sets up HVM passthrough even with disabled iommu' [XSA-61, CVE-2013-4329]

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?c45dbd9d

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006298

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 69966

File Name: fedora_2013-16357.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/19/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/11/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4329

BID: 62307

FEDORA: 2013-16357