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HistoryNov 12, 2012 - 12:00 a.m.

Fedora 16 : xen-4.1.3-3.fc16 (2012-17408)

2012-11-1200:00:00
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limit the size of guest kernels and ramdisks to avoid running out of memory on dom0 during guest boot [XSA-25,CVE-2012-4544] (#870414)

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.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2012-17408.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(62876);
  script_version("1.9");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2012-4544");
  script_bugtraq_id(56289);
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2012-17408");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 16 : xen-4.1.3-3.fc16 (2012-17408)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"limit the size of guest kernels and ramdisks to avoid running out of
memory on dom0 during guest boot [XSA-25,CVE-2012-4544] (#870414)

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."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870412"
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/091832.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?c3b0cac2"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected xen package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/11/01");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/11/12");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^16([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 16.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);

flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC16", reference:"xen-4.1.3-3.fc16")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_note(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "xen");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
fedoraprojectfedoraxenp-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xen
fedoraprojectfedora16cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16