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Fedora Core 5 : kernel-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5 (2006-1221)

high Nessus Plugin ID 24053

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This updates to the latest upstream stable kernel (2.6.18.2), and also fixes a number of security issues.

MOKB-05-11-2006: Linux 2.6.x ISO9660 __find_get_block_slow() denial of service http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-05-11-2006.html (CVE-2006-5757)

MOKB-07-11-2006: Linux 2.6.x zlib_inflate memory corruption http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-07-11-2006.html

MOKB-09-11-2006: Linux 2.6.x ext3fs_dirhash denial of service http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-10-11-2006.html

Herbert Xu found a security issue in the Xen hypervisor, which would allow a malicious guest to access a freed grant table page after freeing and possibly having it reallocated to another guest.

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://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-05-11-2006.html

http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-07-11-2006.html

http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-10-11-2006.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?4065e3a7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 24053

File Name: fedora_2006-1221.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/17/2007

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-kdump, 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:5, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xenu, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xenu-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen0, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-kdump-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/10/2006

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2006-1221