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Fedora 18 : kernel-3.8.8-202.fc18 (2013-6041)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66040

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to latest stable upstream release, Linux 3.8.8. This hopefully fixes a PAE pagetable corruption issue we've seen with users running Chrome/Chromium.

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952197

http://www.nessus.org/u?430dd495

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66040

File Name: fedora_2013-6041.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/20/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18, 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: 4/19/2013

Reference Information

BID: 59055

FEDORA: 2013-6041