Fedora 23 : xen-4.5.2-9.fc23 (2016-f4504e9445)

high Nessus Plugin ID 90045

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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) Qemu: i386: NULL pointer dereference in vapic_write() CVE-2016-1922 (#1292767) qemu: Stack-based buffer overflow in megasas_ctrl_get_info CVE-2015-8613 (#1293305) qemu-kvm:
Infinite loop and out-of-bounds transfer start in start_xmit() and e1000_receive_iov() CVE-2016-1981 (#1299996) Qemu: usb ehci out-of-bounds read in ehci_process_itd (#1300235) Qemu: usb: ehci NULL pointer dereference in ehci_caps_write CVE-2016-2198 (#1303135) Qemu:
net: ne2000: infinite loop in ne2000_receive CVE-2016-2841 (#1304048) Qemu: usb: integer overflow in remote NDIS control message handling CVE-2016-2538 (#1305816) Qemu: usb: NULL pointer dereference in remote NDIS control message handling CVE-2016-2392 (#1307116) Qemu: usb:
multiple eof_timers in ohci module leads to NULL pointer dereference CVE-2016-2391 (#1308882) Qemu: net: out of bounds read in net_checksum_calculate() CVE-2016-2857 (#1309565) Qemu: OOB access in address_space_rw leads to segmentation fault CVE-2015-8817 CVE-2015-8818 (#1313273) Qemu: rng-random: arbitrary stack based allocation leading to corruption CVE-2016-2858 (#1314678)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 90045

File Name: fedora_2016-f4504e9445.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 3/21/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

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:23

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/19/2016

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

FEDORA: 2016-f4504e9445

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