Fedora 20 : kernel-3.17.3-200.fc20 (2014-15200)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79363

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The 3.17.3 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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=1161565

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1163087

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1163744

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1163762

http://www.nessus.org/u?127cad7b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79363

File Name: fedora_2014-15200.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/21/2014

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: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/16/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-7825, CVE-2014-7826, CVE-2014-7841, CVE-2014-7842, CVE-2014-7843

FEDORA: 2014-15200