Fedora Core 4 : kernel-2.6.16-1.2111_FC4 (2006-573)

high Nessus Plugin ID 24110

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This update rebases to the latest upstream -stable release (2.6.16.17), where a number of security problems have been fixed, notably :

SCTP: Validate the parameter length in HB-ACK chunk (CVE-2006-1857) SCTP: Respect the real chunk length when walking parameters (CVE-2006-1858) fs/locks.c: Fix lease_init (CVE-2006-1860) SCTP: Fix state table entries for chunks received in CLOSED state.
(CVE-2006-2271) SCTP: Fix panic's when receiving fragmented SCTP control chunks. (CVE-2006-2272) SCTP: Prevent possible infinite recursion with multiple bundled DATA. (CVE-2006-2274) SCTP: Allow spillover of receive buffer to avoid deadlock. (CVE-2006-2275)

Complete changelogs for the -stable releases can be found at

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.17 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.16 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.15

Fedora specific changes are detailed below

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: High

ID: 24110

File Name: fedora_2006-573.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 1/17/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2006

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2006-573

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