Fedora 19 : xen-4.2.4-6.fc19 (2014-7734)

low Nessus Plugin ID 76371

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Hypervisor heap contents leaked to guest, with extra patch to avoid regression

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=1103646

http://www.nessus.org/u?23b7402f

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 76371

File Name: fedora_2014-7734.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/5/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.7

Temporal Score: 2.3

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/26/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-4021

BID: 68070

FEDORA: 2014-7734