Oracle Linux 5 : Important: / xen (ELSA-2007-0114)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 67461

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2007-0114 advisory.

[3.0.3-25.0.3.el5]
- fix ethernet bonding in balanced-rr mode, respin (rhbz#215887)

[3.0.3-25.0.2.el5]
- fix ethernet bonding in balanced-rr mode (rhbz#215887)

[3.0.3-25.0.1.el5]
- disable qemu monitor mode, for security reasons (rhbz#230295)
- fix IA64 shadow page table mode (rhbz#230459, rhbz#230331)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected xen, xen-devel and / or xen-libs packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2007-0114.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 67461

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2007-0114.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 4/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-0998

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:xen, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:xen-libs

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/26/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/20/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-0998

BID: 22967

RHSA: 2007:0114