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Fedora 19 : xen-4.2.3-14.fc19 (2014-1559)

high Nessus Plugin ID 72252

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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?be00bd17

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 72252

File Name: fedora_2014-1559.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/3/2014

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: High

Base Score: 8.3

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/25/2014

Reference Information

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

FEDORA: 2014-1559