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Fedora 18 : xen-4.2.3-11.fc18 (2013-22866)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 71477

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

HVM guest triggerable AMD CPU erratum may cause host hang [XSA-82, CVE-2013-6885]

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?a58a63e2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 71477

File Name: fedora_2013-22866.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/17/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6885

FEDORA: 2013-22866