Fedora 19 : xen-4.2.3-7.fc19 (2013-20555)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70831

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Lock order reversal between page allocation and grant table locks ocaml xenstored mishandles oversized message replies systemd changes to allow oxenstored to be used instead of xenstored

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=1017875

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1026243

http://www.nessus.org/u?74bc1b1b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70831

File Name: fedora_2013-20555.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/11/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.2

Temporal Score: 4.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/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: 11/3/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4416, CVE-2013-4494

BID: 63404, 63494

FEDORA: 2013-20555