Fedora Core 4 : kernel-2.6.16-1.2108_FC4 (2006-517)

high Nessus Plugin ID 24101

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

Mark Moseley reported that a chroot environment on a SMB share can be left via 'cd ..\'. Similar to CVE-2006-1863 issue with cifs, this fix is for smbfs. (CVE-2006-1864)

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?d02d01a2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 24101

File Name: fedora_2006-517.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/17/2007

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, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:4

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/5/2006

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2006-517