Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.69702
Category:	Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:	Fedora Core 15 FEDORA-2011-6859 (xen)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to xen announced via advisory FEDORA-2011-6859. Update Information: Overflows in kernel decompression can allow root on xen PV guest to gain privileged access to base domain, or access to xen configuration info. Lack of error checking could allow DoS attack from guest. [CVE-2011-1583] Don't require /usr/bin/qemu-nbd as it isn't used at present. Solution: Apply the appropriate updates. This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use su -c 'yum update xen' at the command line. For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2011-6859 Risk factor : High CVSS Score: 6.9
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-1583 RHSA-2011:0496 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0496.html [Xen-devel] 20110509 Re: Xen security advisory CVE-2011-1583 - pv kernel image validation http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-05/msg00491.html [Xen-devel] 20110509 Xen security advisory CVE-2011-1583 - pv kernel image validation http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-05/msg00483.html
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