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MiracleLinux 3 : xen-3.0.3-64.9.1AXS3 (AXSA:2009-14:01)

🗓️ 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
 nessus
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MiracleLinux 3 Xen tools vulnerable per AXSA-2009-14:01; CVE-2008-4993 and CVE-2008-4405 enable local file overwrite and denial of service.

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CentOS 5 : xen (CESA-2009:0003)
6 Jan 201000:00
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Oracle Linux 5 : xen (ELSA-2009-0003)
12 Jul 201300:00
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OracleVM 2.1 : xen (OVMSA-2009-0001)
26 Nov 201400:00
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Tenable Nessus
RHEL 5 : xen (RHSA-2009:0003)
7 Jan 200900:00
nessus
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Scientific Linux Security Update : xen on SL5.x i386/x86_64
1 Aug 201200:00
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Tenable Nessus
openSUSE Security Update : xen (xen-1239)
2 Sep 200900:00
nessus
Cent OS
xen security update
8 Jan 200922:07
centos
Circl
CVE-2008-4405
30 Sep 200800:00
circl
CVE
CVE-2008-4405
3 Oct 200817:18
cve
CVE
CVE-2008-4993
7 Nov 200819:00
cve
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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# Miracle Linux Security Advisory AXSA:2009-14:01.
##

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(284275);
  script_version("1.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2026/01/14");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2008-4405", "CVE-2008-4993");

  script_name(english:"MiracleLinux 3 : xen-3.0.3-64.9.1AXS3 (AXSA:2009-14:01)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote MiracleLinux host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote MiracleLinux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the
AXSA:2009-14:01 advisory.

    This package contains the Xen tools and management daemons needed to run virtual machines on x86, x86_64,
    and ia64 systems.
    Information on how to use Xen can be found at the Xen project pages.
    The Xen system also requires the Xen hypervisor and domain-0 kernel, which can be found in the kernel-xen*
    package.
    Virtualization can be used to run multiple operating systems on one physical system, for purposes of
    hardware consolidation, hardware abstraction, or to test untrusted applications in a sandboxed
    environment.
    Bugs fixed:
    CVE-2008-4993
    qemu-dm.debug in Xen 3.2.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the
    /tmp/args temporary file.
    CVE-2008-4405
    xend in Xen 3.0.3 does not properly limit the contents of the /local/domain xenstore directory tree, and
    does not properly restrict a guest VM's write access within this tree, which allows guest OS users to
    cause a denial of service and possibly have unspecified other impact by writing to (1) console/tty, (2)
    console/limit, or (3) image/device-model-pid. NOTE: this issue was originally reported as an issue in
    libvirt 0.3.3 and xenstore, but CVE is considering the core issue to be related to Xen.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/650");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected xen, xen-devel and / or xen-libs packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2008-4405");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss3_score_source", value:"CVE-2008-4993");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vendor_severity", value:"Moderate");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2008/09/30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/01/23");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2026/01/14");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:xen");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:xen-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:xen-libs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:miracle:linux:3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Miracle Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2026 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

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

  exit(0);
}


include('rpm2.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_product = get_kb_item('installed_os/local/SSH/0/product');
if (isnull(os_product) || 'MIRACLE LINUX' >!< os_product) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'MIRACLE LINUX');
var os_version = get_kb_item('installed_os/local/SSH/0/version');
if (isnull(os_version)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'MIRACLE LINUX');
if (! preg(pattern:"^3([^0-9]|$)", string:os_version)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'MiracleLinux 3.x', 'MIRACLE LINUX ' + os_version);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/MiracleLinux/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('aarch64' >!< cpu && 'ppc' >!< cpu && 's390' >!< cpu && 'x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'MIRACLE LINUX', cpu);

var constraints = [
  {
    'release': '3',
    'pkgs': [
      {'reference':'xen-3.0.3-64.9.1AXS3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'0'},
      {'reference':'xen-devel-3.0.3-64.9.1AXS3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'0'},
      {'reference':'xen-libs-3.0.3-64.9.1AXS3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'0'}
    ]
  }
];

var os_release = get_one_kb_item('installed_os/local/SSH/0/release');
var os_sp = get_one_kb_item('Host/*/minor_release');

var flag = 0;
var reference;
var sp;
var _cpu;
var el_string;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp;
var epoch;
var allowmaj;
var exists_check;
var cves;
foreach var constraint ( constraints ) {
  # Check that the target release is equal to the affected release
  if (!empty_or_null(constraint['release'])){
    if (constraint['release'] != os_release) continue;
  }
  if (!empty_or_null(constraint['sp'])){
    if (constraint['sp'] != os_sp) continue;
  }
  foreach var pkg ( constraint['pkgs'] ) {
    reference = NULL;
    sp = NULL;
    _cpu = NULL;
    el_string = NULL;
    rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
    epoch = NULL;
    allowmaj = NULL;
    exists_check = NULL;
    cves = NULL;
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['reference'])) reference = pkg['reference'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['sp'])) sp = pkg['sp'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['cpu'])) _cpu = pkg['cpu'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['el_string'])) el_string = pkg['el_string'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['epoch'])) epoch = pkg['epoch'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = pkg['allowmaj'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['exists_check'])) exists_check = pkg['exists_check'];
    if (!empty_or_null(pkg['cves'])) cves = pkg['cves'];
    if (reference &&
        ## (no known rpm to check OR known rpm_exists)
        (!exists_check || rpm_exists(rpm:exists_check)) &&
        rpm_check(sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj, cves:cves)) flag++;
  }
}
if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
      extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'xen / xen-devel / xen-libs');
}

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14 Jan 2026 00:00Current
5.8Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5.8
CVSS 27.2
EPSS0.00894
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