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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882613
Category:CentOS Local Security Checks
Title:CentOS Update for xen CESA-2016:2963 centos5
Summary:Check the version of xen
Description:Summary:
Check the version of xen

Vulnerability Insight:
Xen is a virtual machine monitor

Security Fix(es):

* An out of bounds array access issue was found in the Xen virtual machine
monitor, built with the QEMU ioport support. It could occur while doing
ioport read/write operations, if guest was to supply a 32bit address
parameter. A privileged guest user/process could use this flaw to
potentially escalate their privileges on a host. (CVE-2016-9637)

Red Hat would like to thank the Xen project for reporting this issue.

Affected Software/OS:
xen on CentOS 5

Solution:
Please install the updated packages.

CVSS Score:
3.7

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-9637
BugTraq ID: 94699
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94699
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-56
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00005.html
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2016:2963
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2963.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037397
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG

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