Fedora Core 6 : kernel-2.6.18-1.2868.fc6 (2006-1471)

high Nessus Plugin ID 24077

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This update rebases to 2.6.18.6rc2, which fixes the following security bugs :

bridge: fix possible overflow in get_fdb_entries (CVE-2006-5751)

Bluetooth: Add packet size checks for CAPI messages (CVE-2006-6106)

In addition, a number of non-security related bugs have been fixed.
Complete changelogs are available at

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18.4 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18.5 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18.6

Additional Fedora specific changes detailed below.

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 24077

File Name: fedora_2006-1471.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 1/17/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-kdump-debuginfo, 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-xen-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debuginfo-common, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-pae-debuginfo, 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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/18/2006

Reference Information

BID: 21353, 21604

FEDORA: 2006-1471

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