Fedora 27 : xen (2018-604574c943)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 109519

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Information leak via crafted user-supplied CDROM [XSA-258] (#1571867) x86: PV guest may crash Xen with XPTI [XSA-259] (#1571878)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-604574c943

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 109519

File Name: fedora_2018-604574c943.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/2/2018

Updated: 6/3/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/1/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/27/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10471, CVE-2018-10472

FEDORA: 2018-604574c943

IAVB: 2018-B-0057-S