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Fedora Core 6 : kernel-2.6.22.4-45.fc6 (2007-679)

high Nessus Plugin ID 25976

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to linux 2.6.22.3 and 2.6.22.4:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.22.3 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.22.4

CVE-2007-3848: Linux kernel 2.4.35 and other versions allows local users to send arbitrary signals to a child process that is running at higher privileges by causing a setuid-root parent process to die, which delivers an attacker-controlled parent process death signal (PR_SET_PDEATHSIG).

Update to 2.6.22.5-rc1. Highlights: ACPI fixes. Fix wrong temperature reports with some sensor chips. Four sky2 ethernet driver fixes. Fix detection of an AMD chip bug. Revert serial driver patch that broke port detection.

Plus: Additional sky2 fix for some motherboards.

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?898c6269

http://www.nessus.org/u?3bf7926d

http://www.nessus.org/u?2d652a4c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 25976

File Name: fedora_2007-679.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/5/2007

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-pae, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-pae-debug, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-pae-debug-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-pae-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-pae-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debug-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debuginfo-common, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-doc, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-headers, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/4/2007

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2007-679