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Fedora 22 : xen-4.5.2-8.fc22 (2016-f8121efdac)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 89705

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

x86: inconsistent cachability flags on guest mappings [XSA-154, CVE-2016-2270] (#1309324) VMX: guest user mode may crash guest with non-canonical RIP [XSA-170, CVE-2016-2271] (#1309323)

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Solution

Update the affected xen package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1304627

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1304628

http://www.nessus.org/u?ad031430

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 89705

File Name: fedora_2016-f8121efdac.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/7/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:22, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/6/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2270, CVE-2016-2271