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Fedora 21 : xen-4.4.3-8.fc21 (2015-f150b2a8c8)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 89457

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

x86: CPU lockup during exception delivery [XSA-156, CVE-2015-5307, CVE-2015-8104]

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=1277172

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1278496

http://www.nessus.org/u?15906138

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 89457

File Name: fedora_2015-f150b2a8c8.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

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: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/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

Patch Publication Date: 11/20/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5307, CVE-2015-8104