Fedora 21 : xen-4.4.1-9.fc21 (2014-15951)

high Nessus Plugin ID 79902

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Excessive checking in compatibility mode hypercall argument translation, Insufficient bounding of 'REP MOVS' to MMIO emulated inside the hypervisor, fix segfaults and failures in xl migrate
--debug Guest effectable page reference leak in MMU_MACHPHYS_UPDATE handling Insufficient restrictions on certain MMU update hypercalls, Missing privilege level checks in x86 emulation of far branches, Add fix for CVE-2014-0150 to qemu-dm, though it probably isn't exploitable from xen

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Solution

Update the affected xen package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 79902

File Name: fedora_2014-15951.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 12/15/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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: 11/29/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0150, CVE-2014-8594, CVE-2014-8595, CVE-2014-9030

BID: 66821, 71149, 71151, 71207

FEDORA: 2014-15951

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