Fedora 23 : xen-4.5.1-9.fc23 (2015-28cfce6702)

high Nessus Plugin ID 89186

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

ui/vnc: limit client_cut_text msg payload size [CVE-2015-5239] (#1259504), e1000: Avoid infinite loop in processing transmit descriptor [CVE-2015-6815] (#1260224), net: add checks to validate ring buffer pointers [CVE-2015-5279] (#1263278), net: avoid infinite loop when receiving packets [CVE-2015-5278] (#1263281), qemu buffer overflow in virtio-serial [CVE-2015-5745] (#1251354)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89186

File Name: fedora_2015-28cfce6702.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 3/4/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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: 10/3/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5239, CVE-2015-5278, CVE-2015-5279, CVE-2015-5745, CVE-2015-6815

FEDORA: 2015-28cfce6702

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