Fedora Core 4 : kernel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC4 (2006-423)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 21253

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This update includes a number of security issues that have been fixed upstream over the last week or so.

i386/x86-64: Fix x87 information leak between processes (CVE-2006-1056) ip_route_input panic fix (CVE-2006-1525) fix MADV_REMOVE vulnerability (CVE-2006-1524) shmat: stop mprotect from giving write permission to a readonly attachment (CVE-2006-1524) Fix MPBL0010 driver insecure sysfs permissions x86_64: When user could have changed RIP always force IRET (CVE-2006-0744) Fix RCU signal handling Keys: Fix oops when adding key to non-keyring (CVE-2006-1522) sysfs: zero terminate sysfs write buffers (CVE-2006-1055)

It also includes various other fixes from the -stable tree. Full changelogs are available from :

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.9 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.8 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.7 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.6 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.5 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.4 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.3 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.2

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: Medium

ID: 21253

File Name: fedora_2006-423.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 4/21/2006

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:4, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-doc, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp-devel

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/20/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0744, CVE-2006-1055, CVE-2006-1056, CVE-2006-1522, CVE-2006-1524, CVE-2006-1525

CWE: 20

FEDORA: 2006-423

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