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Fedora 42 : xen (2025-ddaa63a0f5)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 245578

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-ddaa63a0f5 advisory.

 update to xen-4.19.3 includes patches for x86: Incorrect stubs exception handling for flags recovery [XSA-470, CVE-2025-27465] x86: Transitive Scheduler Attacks [XSA-471, CVE-2024-36350, CVE-2024-36357]

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-ddaa63a0f5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 245578

File Name: fedora_2025-ddaa63a0f5.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/7/2025

Updated: 8/7/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-27465

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-36357

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:42

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/5/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/8/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-36350, CVE-2024-36357, CVE-2025-27465

FEDORA: 2025-ddaa63a0f5

IAVB: 2025-B-0113