Fedora 22 : xen-4.5.2-9.fc22 (2016-38b20aa50f)

Medium Nessus Plugin ID 90036

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Qemu: nvram: OOB r/w access in processing firmware configurations CVE-2016-1714 (#1296080)

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=1283934

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284008

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1296060

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1296567

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298570

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1299455

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300771

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301643

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302299

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1303106

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1303120

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1304794

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314676

http://www.nessus.org/u?133fe26f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 90036

File Name: fedora_2016-38b20aa50f.nasl

Version: Revision: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2016/03/21

Updated: 2016/10/18

Dependencies: 12634

Risk Information

Risk Factor: Medium

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 6.9

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

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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: 2016/03/19

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8613, CVE-2015-8817, CVE-2015-8818, CVE-2016-1714, CVE-2016-1922, CVE-2016-1981, CVE-2016-2198, CVE-2016-2391, CVE-2016-2392, CVE-2016-2538, CVE-2016-2841, CVE-2016-2857, CVE-2016-2858