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Fedora 25 : kernel (2017-cafcdbdde5)

high Nessus Plugin ID 104160

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The 4.13.8 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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The 4.13.6 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-cafcdbdde5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 104160

File Name: fedora_2017-cafcdbdde5.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/26/2017

Updated: 11/17/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-15265

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.4

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5123

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel

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: 10/25/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/14/2017

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000255, CVE-2017-12190, CVE-2017-15265, CVE-2017-15299, CVE-2017-5123