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Fedora Core 4 : kernel-2.6.12-1.1456_FC4 (2005-906)

high Nessus Plugin ID 19869

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Thu Sep 22 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.12-1.1456_FC4]

 - Disable crash driver on Xen kernels.

 - Wed Sep 14 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2.6.12-1.1455_FC4]

 - Fixes for CVE-2005-2490 and CVE-2005-2492

 - Thu Sep 8 2005 Rik van Riel <riel at redhat.com>

 - upgrade to a newer Xen snapshot

 - exclude Xen TPM bits, since those conflict with 2.6.12.5

 - enable highmem for Xen kernels (#162226)

 - add workaround for glibc bug on VDSO note parsing (Roland) (#166984)

 - Mon Sep 5 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>

 - Fix aic7xxx issue with >4GB. (#167049)

 - Fri Sep 2 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>

 - Various post 2.6.13 ACPI updates. (20050902)

 - Mon Aug 29 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>

 - Fix local builds when '-' is in the hostname.

 - Update ALPS driver to 2.6.13 level.

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 packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0b44697c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 19869

File Name: fedora_2005-906.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/5/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-doc, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen0, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen0-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xenu, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xenu-devel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:4

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/22/2005

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2005-906