Summary
The remote host is missing an update to xen
announced via advisory DSA 2544-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202544-1
Insight
Multiple denial of service vulnerabilities have been discovered in xen, an hypervisor. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2012-3494:
It was discovered that set_debugreg allows writes to reserved bits of the DR7 debug control register on amd64 (x86-64) paravirtualised guests, allowing a guest to crash the host.
CVE-2012-3496:
Matthew Daley discovered that XENMEM_populate_physmap, when called with the MEMF_populate_on_demand flag set, a BUG (detection routine) can be triggered if a translating paging mode is not being used, allowing a guest to crash the host.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.1-5.4.
For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.1.3-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your xen packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2012-3494, CVE-2012-3496 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.7
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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