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Fedora 20 : xen-4.3.2-7.fc20 (2014-9472)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 77360

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Long latency virtual-mmu operations are not preemptible [XSA-97, CVE-2014-5146]

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=1124350

http://www.nessus.org/u?5abd988a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 77360

File Name: fedora_2014-9472.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/25/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/15/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-5146, CVE-2014-5149

BID: 69198, 69199

FEDORA: 2014-9472