| Description: | Description:
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2007:0323.
The Xen package contains the tools for managing the virtual machine monitor
in Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtualization.
The following security flaws are fixed in the updated Xen package:
Joris van Rantwijk found a flaw in the Pygrub utility which is used as a
boot loader for guest domains. A malicious local administrator of a guest
domain could create a carefully crafted grub.conf file which would trigger
the execution of arbitrary code outside of that domain. (CVE-2007-4993)
Tavis Ormandy discovered a heap overflow flaw during video-to-video copy
operations in the Cirrus VGA extension code used in Xen. A malicious local
administrator of a guest domain could potentially trigger this flaw and
execute arbitrary code outside of the domain. (CVE-2007-1320)
Tavis Ormandy discovered insufficient input validation leading to a heap
overflow in the Xen NE2000 network driver. If the driver is in use, a
malicious local administrator of a guest domain could potentially trigger
this flaw and execute arbitrary code outside of the domain. Xen does not
use this driver by default. (CVE-2007-1321)
Users of Xen should update to these erratum packages containing backported
patches which correct these issues.
Solution:
Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red
Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0323.html
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
Risk factor : High
CVSS Score:
7.2
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