Fedora 20 : kernel-3.13.3-201.fc20 (2014-2576)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72546

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The 3.13.3 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. The 3.13.2 rebase contains support for additional hardware, some new features and a number of important bug fixes across the tree.
Fixes CVE-2014-0069 cifs: incorrect handling of bogus user pointers

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=1062356

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1064253

http://www.nessus.org/u?ea5482b5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72546

File Name: fedora_2014-2576.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/18/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/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: 2/15/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0069, CVE-2014-1874

BID: 65459, 65588

FEDORA: 2014-2576