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Fedora 38 : kernel / kernel-headers / kernel-tools (2023-e4e985b5dd)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 178741

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-e4e985b5dd advisory.

 The 6.4.4 stable kernel rebase contains additional hardware support, new features, and a number of important fixes across the tree.


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, kernel-headers and / or kernel-tools packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-e4e985b5dd

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 178741

File Name: fedora_2023-e4e985b5dd.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/23/2023

Updated: 3/31/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-35001

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 9.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:A

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-tools, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-headers, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38, 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: 7/20/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/5/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-31248, CVE-2023-35001