Fedora 17 : kernel-3.9.8-100.fc17 (2013-9123)

high Nessus Plugin ID 67351

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Rebase to 3.9.8 now that 3.8 is no longer maintained.

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?ec7c8c1a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 67351

File Name: fedora_2013-9123.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.9

Temporal Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A: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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/25/2013

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: 2013-9123