Fedora 22 : xen-4.5.2-5.fc22 (2015-08e4af5a20)

high Nessus Plugin ID 89135

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VPR Score: 9.2

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

eepro100: Prevent two endless loops [CVE-2015-8345] (#1285215), pcnet:
fix rx buffer overflow [CVE-2015-7512], ui: vnc: avoid floating point exception [CVE-2015-8504], additional patch for [XSA-158, CVE-2015-8338] long running memory operations on ARM [XSA-158, CVE-2015-8338] XENMEM_exchange error handling issues [XSA-159, CVE-2015-8339, CVE-2015-8340] libxl leak of pv kernel and initrd on error [XSA-160, CVE-2015-8341] ---- heap buffer overflow vulnerability in pcnet emulator [XSA-162, CVE-2015-7504], virtual PMU is unsupported [XSA-163]

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1261461

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284911

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284919

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284933

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1285061

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1285213

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1285350

http://www.nessus.org/u?910221e5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89135

File Name: fedora_2015-08e4af5a20.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Risk Information

Risk Factor: High

VPR Score: 9.2

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 7.8

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

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:22

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/19/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7504, CVE-2015-7512, CVE-2015-8338, CVE-2015-8339, CVE-2015-8340, CVE-2015-8341, CVE-2015-8345