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Fedora 31 : kernel (2020-5920a7a0b2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 140623

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The 5.8.9 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-2020-5920a7a0b2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 140623

File Name: fedora_2020-5920a7a0b2.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/17/2020

Updated: 2/20/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-25211

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:31, 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: 9/16/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-25211