Summary
Multiple security issues have been discovered in the Xen virtualisation solution which may result in information leaks or denial of service.
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 4.1.4-3+deb7u2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your xen packages.
Insight
Xen is a hypervisor providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently.
Affected
xen on Debian Linux
Detection
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVSS Base Score: 7.4
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Related Vulnerabilities
- Debian Security Advisory DSA 034-1 (ePerl)
- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1011-1 (kernel-patch-vserver, util-vserver)
- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1045-1 (openvpn)
- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1070-1 (kernel-source-2.4.19,kernel-image-sparc-2.4,kernel-patch-2.4.19-mips)
- Debian Security Advisory DSA 082-1 (xvt)