Fedora 18 : kernel-3.9.5-201.fc18 (2013-10695)

High Nessus Plugin ID 67285

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VPR Score: 6.7

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to the latest upstream stable release, Linux v3.9.5

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=968036

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=969515

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=969518

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=971146

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=971242

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=971258

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=973100

http://www.nessus.org/u?ea56e6dd

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 67285

File Name: fedora_2013-10695.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2013/07/12

Updated: 2020/03/12

Dependencies: 12634

Risk Information

Risk Factor: High

VPR Score: 6.7

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 7.9

Temporal Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/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:18

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: 2013/06/13

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2140, CVE-2013-2147, CVE-2013-2148, CVE-2013-2164, CVE-2013-2850, CVE-2013-2851, CVE-2013-2852

BID: 60243, 60280, 60341, 60375, 60409, 60410, 60414

FEDORA: 2013-10695