Fedora 40 : kernel (2024-873e2cb5f2)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 204942

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-873e2cb5f2 advisory.

The 6.9.12 stable kernel update contains 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 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-873e2cb5f2

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 204942

File Name: fedora_2024-873e2cb5f2.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/1/2024

Updated: 8/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-41019

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-41022

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/28/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/28/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-41015, CVE-2024-41017, CVE-2024-41018, CVE-2024-41019, CVE-2024-41020, CVE-2024-41021, CVE-2024-41022