Fedora 21 : xen-4.4.1-12.fc21 (2015-0331)

high Nessus Plugin ID 80575

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

xen crash due to use after free on hvm guest teardown [XSA-116, CVE-2015-0361]

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=1176097

http://www.nessus.org/u?16b40d91

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 80575

File Name: fedora_2015-0331.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/19/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/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: 1/7/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0361

BID: 71882

FEDORA: 2015-0331