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Fedora 20 : xen-4.3.2-2.fc20 (2014-4458)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 73362

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

HVMOP_set_mem_access is not preemptible [XSA-89, CVE-2014-2599] (#1080425)

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=1075499

http://www.nessus.org/u?a4e1b575

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 73362

File Name: fedora_2014-4458.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/7/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/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: 3/28/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-2599

BID: 66407

FEDORA: 2014-4458