Fedora 21 : kernel-3.17.2-300.fc21 (2014-14126)

high Nessus Plugin ID 78814

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Linux v3.17.2. A wide variety of fixes across the tree. Even more KVM CVE fixes CVE fixes for KVM and SCTP.

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=1144825

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144878

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144883

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147850

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153322

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155731

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155745

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1156518

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1156615

http://www.nessus.org/u?7f9fb363

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 78814

File Name: fedora_2014-14126.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/3/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/1/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3610, CVE-2014-3611, CVE-2014-3646, CVE-2014-3673, CVE-2014-3687, CVE-2014-3688, CVE-2014-3690, CVE-2014-8369, CVE-2014-8480, CVE-2014-8481

BID: 70691, 70710, 70712, 70742, 70743, 70745, 70749, 70766, 70768

FEDORA: 2014-14126