Fedora 23 : kernel-4.4.7-300.fc23 (2016-8e858f96b8)

high Nessus Plugin ID 90656

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The 4.4.7 update contains a number of important fixes across the kernel 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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 90656

File Name: fedora_2016-8e858f96b8.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 4/22/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23

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: 4/19/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8839, CVE-2016-3672, CVE-2016-3951

FEDORA: 2016-8e858f96b8

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