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Fedora 28 : kernel / kernel-tools (2018-2c6bd93875)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 120318

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The 4.17.2 kernel rebase contains new drivers, new features, and 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 and / or kernel-tools packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-2c6bd93875

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 120318

File Name: fedora_2018-2c6bd93875.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 7/8/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-11412

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:28, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel

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: 6/23/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-11412