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Fedora 24 : kernel (2016-2e5ebfed6d)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 93326

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The -201 build is an incremental build. it contains several fixes for known bugzillas and one fix for a known oom regression.

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This is a rebase to the 4.7.2 kernel. The 4.7.2 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-2e5ebfed6d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 93326

File Name: fedora_2016-2e5ebfed6d.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/6/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/2/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/6/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6480, CVE-2016-6828