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Fedora 25 : xen (2016-1b868c23a9)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 95945

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

x86 CMPXCHG8B emulation fails to ignore operand size override [XSA-200, CVE-2016-9932] (#1404262)

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ARM guests may induce host asynchronous abort [XSA-201, CVE-2016-9815,

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Solution

Update the affected xen package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-1b868c23a9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 95945

File Name: fedora_2016-1b868c23a9.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/20/2016

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: 4.9

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/19/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/23/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9815, CVE-2016-9913, CVE-2016-9921, CVE-2016-9932