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Fedora 26 : kernel (2017-3202aed903)

high Nessus Plugin ID 103520

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The 4.12.14 stable kernel 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-2017-3202aed903

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 103520

File Name: fedora_2017-3202aed903.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/28/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/26/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/15/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14497