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Fedora 24 : xen-4.6.1-6.fc24 (2016-48e72b7bc5)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 90954

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

x86 shadow pagetables: address width overflow [XSA-173, CVE-2016-3960] Qemu: net: buffer overflow in stellaris_enet emulator [CVE-2016-4001] Qemu: net: buffer overflow in MIPSnet emulator [CVE-2016-4002] qemu:
Infinite loop vulnerability in usb_ehci using siTD process [CVE-2016-4037]

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=1323955

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1325129

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1325884

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326082

http://www.nessus.org/u?9de506b7

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 90954

File Name: fedora_2016-48e72b7bc5.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/9/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/7/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3960, CVE-2016-4001, CVE-2016-4002, CVE-2016-4037