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Oracle Linux 5 : xen (ELSA-2009-1472)

high Nessus Plugin ID 67935

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2009-1472 advisory.

 [3.0.3-94.el5_4.1]
 - Fix race condition on domain reboot (rhbz 525143)
 - Avoid multiple restarts of a domain (rhbz 525141)
 - Add grub.conf password protection support to pygrub (rhbz 525142)
 - Ignore unimplemented PHYSDEVOP_map_pirq (rhbz 525149)

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected xen, xen-devel and / or xen-libs packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2009-1472.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 67935

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2009-1472.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 4/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-3525

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/1/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/5/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3525

BID: 36523

RHSA: 2009:1472