CentOS 5 : xen (CESA-2008:0892)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 43711

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Synopsis

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

Description

Updated xen packages that resolve a couple of security issues and fix a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The xen packages contain tools for managing the virtual machine monitor in Red Hat Virtualization.

It was discovered that the hypervisor's para-virtualized framebuffer (PVFB) backend failed to validate the frontend's framebuffer description properly. This could allow a privileged user in the unprivileged domain (DomU) to cause a denial of service, or, possibly, elevate privileges to the privileged domain (Dom0). (CVE-2008-1952)

A flaw was found in the QEMU block format auto-detection, when running fully-virtualized guests and using Qemu images written on removable media (USB storage, 3.5' disks). Privileged users of such fully-virtualized guests (DomU), with a raw-formatted disk image, were able to write a header to that disk image describing another format.
This could allow such guests to read arbitrary files in their hypervisor's host (Dom0). (CVE-2008-1945)

Additionally, the following bug is addressed in this update :

* The qcow-create command terminated when invoked due to glibc bounds checking on the realpath() function.

Users of xen are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these security issues and fix this bug.

Solution

Update the affected xen packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?53e14ea2

http://www.nessus.org/u?5afcec1b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 43711

File Name: centos_RHSA-2008-0892.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/6/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xen, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xen-libs, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/5/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/23/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1945, CVE-2008-1952

CWE: 119, 200

RHSA: 2008:0892