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Fedora 42 : kernel (2025-4c1d09a51b)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 264594

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-4c1d09a51b advisory.

 The 6.16.7 stable kernel updates contain mitigation for the VMSCAPE vulnerability on x86 CPUs. This has been assigned CVE-2025-40300

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 The 6.16.6 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected kernel package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-4c1d09a51b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 264594

File Name: fedora_2025-4c1d09a51b.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/12/2025

Updated: 9/12/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-40300

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:42, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/11/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-40300