Fedora 26 : kernel (2018-8dc60a4feb)

high Nessus Plugin ID 106280

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The 4.14.14 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. This update also includes some PPC mitigations, and has been built with a retpoline capable compiler for improved Spectre mitigation on x86_64.

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-2018-8dc60a4feb

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 106280

File Name: fedora_2018-8dc60a4feb.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/24/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/23/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/11/2018

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) rds_atomic_free_op NULL pointer dereference Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5332, CVE-2018-5333, CVE-2018-5344