Fedora Core 3 : kernel-2.6.10-1.741_FC3 (2005-025)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 16166

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- CVE-2005-0001

Paul Starzetz from isec.pl found an exploitable hole in the x86 SMP page fault handler which could lead to privilege escalation.
http://www.isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0022-pagefault.t xt

This update additionally fixes a random memory corruption issue present in the previous update, and in addition updates to the latest
-ac collection of patches. A full changelog of the update vs the previous -ac8 based release is available at http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/13/219

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 16166

File Name: fedora_2005-025.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 1/14/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-doc, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:3

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: 1/13/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0001, CVE-2005-3624, CVE-2005-3625, CVE-2005-3626, CVE-2005-3627

FEDORA: 2005-025

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