Fedora 24 : xen (2016-5d5a8bfbc5)

high Nessus Plugin ID 92101

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

xen no longer crashes when built without -fno-tree-coalesce-vars, in systemd only try to load kernel modules that are in Fedora, x86 software guest page walk PS bit handling flaw [XSA-176, CVE-2016-4480]

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-2016-5d5a8bfbc5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 92101

File Name: fedora_2016-5d5a8bfbc5.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/14/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/18/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4480