Fedora 13 : xen-3.4.3-3.fc13 (2011-7421)

high Nessus Plugin ID 54947

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

gain privileged access to base domain, or access to xen configuration info. Lack of error checking could allow DoS attack from guest.
[CVE-2011-1583]

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. 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

http://www.nessus.org/u?e5609629

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 54947

File Name: fedora_2011-7421.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/3/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/25/2011

Reference Information

BID: 47779

FEDORA: 2011-7421