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Fedora 21 : xen-4.4.1-6.fc21 (2014-12002)

high Nessus Plugin ID 78102

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Improper MSR range used for x2APIC emulation [XSA-108, CVE-2014-7188] xen support is in 256k seabios binary when it exists (#1146260)

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=1144499

http://www.nessus.org/u?bd6f3d21

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 78102

File Name: fedora_2014-12002.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/9/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 7.2

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:21

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/3/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-7188

BID: 70198

FEDORA: 2014-12002