Fedora 14 : kernel-2.6.35.14-97.fc14 (2011-12874)

high Nessus Plugin ID 56416

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixes assorted CVEs CVE-2011-2918: perf: Fix software event overflow CVE-2011-3188: net: improve sequence number generation CVE-2011-2723:
gro: Only reset frag0 when skb can be pulled CVE-2011-2928: befs:
Validate length of long symbolic links CVE-2011-3191: cifs: fix possible memory corruption in CIFSFindNext CVE-2011-1833: ecryptfs:
mount source TOCTOU race

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 kernel package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ce844bc9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 56416

File Name: fedora_2011-12874.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/10/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:14

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/18/2011

Reference Information

BID: 48929, 49108, 49152, 49256, 49289, 49295

FEDORA: 2011-12874