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Fedora 23 : xen-4.5.2-6.fc23 (2015-d8253e2b1d)

high Nessus Plugin ID 89429

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

paravirtualized drivers incautious about shared memory contents [XSA-155, CVE-2015-8550] qemu-dm buffer overrun in MSI-X handling [XSA-164, CVE-2015-8554] information leak in legacy x86 FPU/XMM initialization [XSA-165, CVE-2015-8555] ioreq handling possibly susceptible to multiple read issue [XSA-166]

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=1289125

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1289129

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1289130

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1290365

http://www.nessus.org/u?cb79bcf5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89429

File Name: fedora_2015-d8253e2b1d.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

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: 12/22/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8550, CVE-2015-8554, CVE-2015-8555