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Fedora 18 : xen-4.2.1-10.fc18 (2013-4952)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 65965

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

make xendomains systemd script executable and update it from init.d version (#919705), Potential use of freed memory in event channel operations [XSA-47, CVE-2013-1920]

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=919705

http://www.nessus.org/u?0a26e3d2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 65965

File Name: fedora_2013-4952.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/14/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/5/2013

Reference Information

BID: 58880

FEDORA: 2013-4952