Fedora 30 : 2:microcode_ctl / kernel / kernel-headers / kernel-tools (2019-1689d3fe07)

high Nessus Plugin ID 130919

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The 5.3.11 stable kernel update contains a number of important security updates across the tree, including mitigations for the most recent hardware issues disclosed on Nov 12.

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 packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-1689d3fe07

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 130919

File Name: fedora_2019-1689d3fe07.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/13/2019

Updated: 12/12/2019

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl, linux_alt_patch_detect.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:2:microcode_ctl, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-tools, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:30

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/13/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12207, CVE-2019-0117, CVE-2019-0154, CVE-2019-0155, CVE-2019-11135