Fedora 32 : xen (2020-f668e579be)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 141102

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

x86 pv: Crash when handling guest access to MSR_MISC_ENABLE [XSA-333, CVE-2020-25602] (#1881619) Missing unlock in XENMEM_acquire_resource error path [XSA-334, CVE-2020-25598] (#1881616) race when migrating timers between x86 HVM vCPU-s [XSA-336, CVE-2020-25604] (#1881618) PCI passthrough code reading back hardware registers [XSA-337, CVE-2020-25595] (#1881587) once valid event channels may not turn invalid [XSA-338, CVE-2020-25597] (#1881588) x86 pv guest kernel DoS via SYSENTER [XSA-339, CVE-2020-25596] (#1881617) Missing memory barriers when accessing/allocating an event channel [XSA-340, CVE-2020-25603] (#1881583) out of bounds event channels available to 32-bit x86 domains [XSA-342, CVE-2020-25600] (#1881582) races with evtchn_reset() [XSA-343, CVE-2020-25599] (#1881581) lack of preemption in evtchn_reset() / evtchn_destroy() [XSA-344, CVE-2020-25601] (#1881586)

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Solution

Update the affected xen package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-f668e579be

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 141102

File Name: fedora_2020-f668e579be.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/1/2020

Updated: 11/13/2020

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-25597

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:32

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/1/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/23/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-25595, CVE-2020-25596, CVE-2020-25597, CVE-2020-25598, CVE-2020-25599, CVE-2020-25600, CVE-2020-25601, CVE-2020-25602, CVE-2020-25603, CVE-2020-25604

FEDORA: 2020-f668e579be

IAVB: 2020-B-0056-S