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Fedora 17 : kernel-3.3.4-4.fc17 (2012-7362)

high Nessus Plugin ID 59025

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

this update resolves an important security issue in the dl2k driver, and Fixes an issue with the radeon DRM driver in EFI mode.

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=818820

http://www.nessus.org/u?43a7988c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 59025

File Name: fedora_2012-7362.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/8/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/5/2012

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2012-7362