Fedora 10 : kernel-2.6.27.38-170.2.113.fc10 (2009-11038)

high Nessus Plugin ID 42402

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to kernel 2.6.27.38:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.38

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?395e6259

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528868

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529597

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529626

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530490

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530515

http://www.nessus.org/u?88d0a7ab

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 42402

File Name: fedora_2009-11038.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/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: 11/5/2009

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3547, CVE-2009-3612, CVE-2009-3620, CVE-2009-3621, CVE-2009-3638

BID: 36723, 36803, 36824, 36827, 36901

CWE: 189, 20, 200, 362

FEDORA: 2009-11038