Fedora 8 : kvm-60-6.fc8 (2008-4604)

high Nessus Plugin ID 32467

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Tue May 27 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta at redhat.com> - 60-6.fc8

- Fix Cirrus heap overflow vulnerability (#448524)

- Fri May 23 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 60-5.fc8

- Put PTY in rawmode

- Fri May 16 2008 Glauber Costa <gcosta at redhat.com> - 60-4.fc8

- Fix problem with cirrus device that was breaking vnc connections (rhbz #446830)

- Wed Feb 27 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 60-3.fc8

- Fix block device checks for extendable disk formats (rhbz #434978)

- Sat Feb 23 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 60-2.fc8

- Fix block device extents check (rhbz #433560)

- Thu Jan 31 2008 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com>

- We don't need e2fsprogs-devel to build anymore (#331871)

- Thu Jan 24 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> - 60-1.fc9

- Updated to kvm-60

- Fix license tag to keep rpmlint quiet

- Remove unused PPC, Sparc and PPC Video BIOS

- Tue Jan 15 2008 Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com>: - 59-1

- add upstream patch to fix VMs that no longer boot (#427317)

- update to kvm-59

- Thu Dec 27 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> - 58-2

- Fix up defaults patch to apply

- Thu Dec 27 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> - 58-1

- Update to kvm-58

- Thu Dec 13 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> - 56-1

- Update to kvm-56

- Tue Dec 4 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> - 55-1

- Update to kvm-55

- Mon Dec 3 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> - 54-1

- update to kvm-54

- Tue Nov 20 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> - 53-1

- update to kvm-53

- Wed Nov 7 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> - 51-1

- update to kvm-51

- Tue Nov 6 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> - 50-1

- update to kvm-50, drop all the patches that have gone upstream

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 kvm package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237342

http://www.nessus.org/u?d676bebd

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 32467

File Name: fedora_2008-4604.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/29/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kvm, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/28/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-1320

BID: 23731

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2008-4604