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Fedora 27 : kernel (2018-21a7ad920c)

high Nessus Plugin ID 106023

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The 4.14.13 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. This is also the first update to contain some spectre mitigations. Some patches for variant 1 as well as the initial retpoline build for variant 2. These variant 2 mitigations will improve with further patches, and once compiler support is improved.

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-2018-21a7ad920c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 106023

File Name: fedora_2018-21a7ad920c.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/12/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/12/2018

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