Fedora 20 : xen-4.3.2-1.fc20 (2014-2802)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72765

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

update to xen-4.3.2 (includes fix for 'Excessive time to disable caching with HVM guests with PCI passthrough'), use-after-free in xc_cpupool_getinfo() under memory pressure

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=1064490

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=986295

http://www.nessus.org/u?fceb95d3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72765

File Name: fedora_2014-2802.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/3/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.7

Temporal Score: 5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/21/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2212, CVE-2014-1950

BID: 61424, 65529

FEDORA: 2014-2802