Fedora 10 : kernel-2.6.27.37-170.2.104.fc10 (2009-10525)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 42156

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to kernel 2.6.27.37:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.36 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.37

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?d092acef

http://www.nessus.org/u?1d41ad4c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526788

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527534

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528887

http://www.nessus.org/u?349f65a5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 42156

File Name: fedora_2009-10525.nasl

Version: 1.30

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/16/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/15/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2908, CVE-2009-2909, CVE-2009-2910

BID: 36639

CWE: 189, 200

FEDORA: 2009-10525