Fedora 22 : kernel-4.0.0-0.rc4.git0.1.fc22 (2015-4066)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 82056

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to latest upstream 4.0 release, Linux v4.0-rc4. This also should fix some aarch64 hangs and builds with variant set. UEFI ESRT support is added.

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=1181166

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196266

http://www.nessus.org/u?c5640de0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 82056

File Name: fedora_2015-4066.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/25/2015

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: 6.9

Temporal Score: 6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:22

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/18/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8159, CVE-2015-2150

BID: 73014, 73060

FEDORA: 2015-4066