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Fedora 29 : xen (2018-8e457298ce)

high Nessus Plugin ID 120606

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

guest use of HLE constructs may lock up host [XSA-282]

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-2018-8e457298ce

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 120606

File Name: fedora_2018-8e457298ce.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:29

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/14/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2018

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