Fedora Core 4 : kernel-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 (2006-013)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20403

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes several low-priority security problems that were discovered during the development of 2.6.15, and backported.

Notably, CVE-2005-4605.

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: 20403

File Name: fedora_2006-013.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/6/2006

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2006-013

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