Fedora 23 : xen-4.5.1-5.fc23 (2015-12679)

high Nessus Plugin ID 85316

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

QEMU heap overflow flaw while processing certain ATAPI commands.
[XSA-138, CVE-2015-5154] (#1247142) try again to fix xen-qemu-dom0-disk-backend.service (#1242246)

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=1243563

http://www.nessus.org/u?3098ca3e

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 85316

File Name: fedora_2015-12679.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/11/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/3/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5154

FEDORA: 2015-12679