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Oracle Linux 5 : xen (ELSA-2011-0496)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 68272
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Synopsis
The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.Description
The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-0496 advisory.- Multiple integer overflows in tools/libxc/xc_dom_bzimageloader.c in Xen 3.2, 3.3, 4.0, and 4.1 allow local users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted paravirtualised guest kernel image that triggers (1) a buffer overflow during a decompression loop or (2) an out-of-bounds read in the loader involving unspecified length fields. (CVE-2011-1583)
- tools/libxc/xc_dom_bzimageloader.c in Xen 3.2, 3.3, 4.0, and 4.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (management software infinite loop and management domain resource consumption) via unspecified vectors related to Lack of error checking in the decompression loop. (CVE-2011-3262)
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues 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
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 68272
File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-0496.nasl
Version: 1.8
Type: local
Agent: unix
Published: 7/12/2013
Updated: 1/16/2024
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.0
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.9
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-1583
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:xen-libs, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Patch Publication Date: 5/9/2011
Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2011
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2011-1583, CVE-2011-3262
RHSA: 2011:0496