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Fedora Core 4 : kernel-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 (2005-820)

high Nessus Plugin ID 19722

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fri Aug 26 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.12-1.1447_FC4]

 - Better identify local builds. (#159696)

 - Fix disk/net dump & netconsole. (#152586)

 - Fix up sleeping in invalid context in sym2 driver.
 (#164995)

 - Fix 'semaphore is not ready' error in snd-intel8x0m.

 - Restore hwclock functionality on some systems.
 (#144894)

 - Merge patches proposed for 2.6.12.6

 - Fix typo in ALPS driver.

 - Fix 'No sense' error with Transcend USB key. (#162559)

 - Fix up ide-scsi check for medium not present.
 (#160868)

 - powernow-k8 driver update from 2.6.13rc7.

 - Tue Aug 23 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.12-1.1435_FC4]

 - Work around AMD x86-64 errata 122.

 - Tue Aug 23 2005 Rik van Riel <riel at redhat.com>

 - upgrade to today's Xen snapshot

 - Mon Aug 22 2005 Rik van Riel <riel at redhat.com>

 - make sure that the vsyscall-note is linked in so the right glibc is used

 - Sun Aug 21 2005 Rik van Riel <riel at redhat.com>

 - fix the Xen vsyscall problem

 - Thu Aug 18 2005 David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at redhat.com>

 - Don't probe 8250 ports on ppc32 unless they're in the device tree

 - Enable ISDN, 8250 console, i8042 keyboard controller on ppc32

 - Audit updates from git tree

 - Wed Aug 17 2005 Rik van Riel <riel at redhat.com>

 - temporarily disable the vsyscall page for Xen

 - Tue Aug 16 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>

 - Restrict ipsec socket policy loading to CAP_NET_ADMIN.
 (CVE-2005-2555)

 - Mon Aug 15 2005 Rik van Riel <riel at redhat.com>

 - upgrade Xen to a newer version

 - Mon Aug 15 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>

 - 2.6.11.5

 - Fix module_verify_elf check that rejected valid .ko files. (#165528)

 - Thu Aug 11 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>

 - Audit speedup in syscall path.

 - Update to a newer ACPI drop.

 - Fri Aug 5 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.12-1.1420_FC4]

 - update to final 2.6.12.4 patchset.

 - ACPI update to 20050729.

 - Disable experimental ACPI HOTKEY driver. (#163355)

[plus 15 lines in the Changelog]

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?10424f1c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 19722

File Name: fedora_2005-820.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/17/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen0-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-doc, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:4, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xenu-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen0, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xenu

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 8/28/2005

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2005-820