Fedora 17 : kernel-3.8.4-102.fc17 (2013-4357)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 65759

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to latest upstream stable release, 3.8.4. Fixes across the entire tree.

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=917012

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917013

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917017

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=923652

http://www.nessus.org/u?d1cb9687

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 65759

File Name: fedora_2013-4357.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/1/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/24/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1796, CVE-2013-1797, CVE-2013-1798, CVE-2013-2634, CVE-2013-2635, CVE-2013-2636

BID: 58604, 58605, 58607, 58597

FEDORA: 2013-4357