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Fedora 21 : kernel-4.1.7-100.fc21 (2015-15933)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 86078

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The 4.1.7 update contains a number of important updates across the 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=1256746

http://www.nessus.org/u?9b166e72

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 86078

File Name: fedora_2015-15933.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/23/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/22/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-6666

FEDORA: 2015-15933