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Fedora 26 : kernel (2018-884a105c04)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 109742

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to v4.16.7 which contains fixes across the tree. This also temporarily reverts the fix for CVE-2018-1108 as it resulted in boots hanging in some scenarios.

---- Update to v4.16.6 which contains fixes across the tree

---- Update to v4.16.5 which contains fixes across the tree

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Rebase to v4.16.4

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The 4.15.18 stable kernel 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 update system website.
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://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-884a105c04

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 109742

File Name: fedora_2018-884a105c04.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/14/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/11/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/21/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1108