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Fedora 20 : xen-4.3.1-8.fc20 (2014-1552)

high Nessus Plugin ID 72251

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

PHYSDEVOP_{prepare,release}_msix exposed to unprivileged pv guests, Out-of-memory condition yielding memory corruption during IRQ setup

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=1057140

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1058395

http://www.nessus.org/u?111d5742

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 72251

File Name: fedora_2014-1552.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/3/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/25/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1642, CVE-2014-1666

FEDORA: 2014-1552