Fedora 20 : kernel-3.11.7-300.fc20 (2013-20705)

high Nessus Plugin ID 70833

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The 3.11.7 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. Various bug and CVE fixes.

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=1007939

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1023477

http://www.nessus.org/u?ef06debf

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 70833

File Name: fedora_2013-20705.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/11/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4348, CVE-2013-4470

BID: 63359, 63536

FEDORA: 2013-20705