Fedora 17 : kernel-3.8.11-100.fc17 (2013-6999)

Medium Nessus Plugin ID 66310

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to latest upstream stable release, Linux v3.8.11. A variety of fixes across the tree.

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=955216

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=955599

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=955629

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=955649

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=955662

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956069

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956088

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956094

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956110

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956125

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956135

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956162

http://www.nessus.org/u?3fc72dec

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66310

File Name: fedora_2013-6999.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2013/05/04

Updated: 2020/03/12

Dependencies: 12634

Risk Information

Risk Factor: Medium

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 6

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Available: false

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2013/04/30

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2013/04/22

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1979, CVE-2013-3076, CVE-2013-3222, CVE-2013-3223, CVE-2013-3224, CVE-2013-3225, CVE-2013-3228, CVE-2013-3230, CVE-2013-3231, CVE-2013-3232, CVE-2013-3233, CVE-2013-3234

BID: 59377, 59380, 59383, 59385, 59387, 59389, 59390, 59394, 59396, 59397, 59398, 59538

FEDORA: 2013-6999