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Fedora 36 : kernel (2022-391e24517d)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 162339

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-391e24517d advisory.

 The 5.18.5 stable kernel update contains mitigation for the processor MMIO stale-data vulnerabilities.
 These are covered by CVE-2022-21166 CVE-2022-21125 and CVE-2022-21123

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected kernel package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-391e24517d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 162339

File Name: fedora_2022-391e24517d.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/17/2022

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-21166

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:36, 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: 6/16/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/14/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-21123, CVE-2022-21125, CVE-2022-21166