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Fedora 23 : xen-4.5.1-8.fc23 (2015-15943)

low Nessus Plugin ID 86055

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

libxl fails to honour readonly flag on disks with qemu-xen [XSA-142 (possible fix)]

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=1257893

http://www.nessus.org/u?70513754

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 86055

File Name: fedora_2015-15943.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/22/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

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

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: 9/21/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7311

FEDORA: 2015-15943