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Fedora 18 : xen-4.2.3-1.fc18 (2013-16371)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 69967

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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

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?3fd15cf9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 69967

File Name: fedora_2013-16371.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, 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:18

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: 2013-16371