Fedora Core 5 : kernel-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5 (2006-499)

high Nessus Plugin ID 24096

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

An update to the latest upstream -stable snapshot (2.6.16.13)

Among quite a few bug-fixes, are two security related fixes :

Don't allow a backslash in a path component (CVE-2006-1863) NETFILTER:
SCTP conntrack: fix infinite loop (CVE-2006-1527)

Detailed changelogs of the last few point releases can be found at :

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.10 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.11 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.12 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.13

Fedora specific changelog detailed below.

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 packages.

See Also

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.10

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.11

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.12

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.13

http://www.nessus.org/u?d95568c1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 24096

File Name: fedora_2006-499.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/17/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-doc, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-kdump, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-kdump-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen0, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen0-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xenu, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xenu-devel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/3/2006

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2006-499