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Fedora Core 2 : kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.1 (2004-202)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 13733

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This security update fixes the remote DoS possibility identified and fixed by Adam Osuchowski and Tomasz Dubinski in the netfilter code of the 2.6 kernel. Note that this remote DoS can only be triggered when using the rarely used '-p tcp --tcp-option' options in the netfilter firewall subsystem. Fedora Core 2 systems are not vulnerable unless the administrator manually configured this rarely used option.

For more information see http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/367615/2004-06-27/2004-07-03/0

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/367615/2004-06-27/2004-07-03/0

http://www.nessus.org/u?dc0ffc89

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 13733

File Name: fedora_2004-202.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/23/2004

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:2, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-doc, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-sourcecode

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/30/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0626

FEDORA: 2004-202