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Fedora 40 : bpftool / kernel / kernel-headers (2024-811cffc4ef)

high Nessus Plugin ID 213036

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 40 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-811cffc4ef advisory.

 The 6.12.4 stable kernel rebase contains new features, additional hardware support 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected bpftool, kernel and / or kernel-headers packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-811cffc4ef

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 213036

File Name: fedora_2024-811cffc4ef.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/16/2024

Updated: 12/16/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-50067

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-headers, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bpftool, 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: 12/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/28/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-50067