Fedora 15 : kernel-2.6.43.2-6.fc15 (2012-6406)

high Nessus Plugin ID 58881

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixes CVEs :

CVE-2012-2123 CVE-2012-2121 CVE-2012-2119

Also fixes a boot regression on some Dell machines Linux 3.3.2

There was a regression at the DVB core, affecting applications that require the DVB status before having a lock. In order to allow a broader test (including my environment).

All new patches from the upstream media tree up to Apr, 10 got backported plus the fix patches, in order to have, among other things, the az6007 and af9035 drivers backported.

Various bugfixes.

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806722

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=814149

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=814278

http://www.nessus.org/u?be6eb799

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 58881

File Name: fedora_2012-6406.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/26/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

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:15

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/22/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2119, CVE-2012-2121, CVE-2012-2123

FEDORA: 2012-6406