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Fedora Core 5 : kernel-2.6.19-1.2288.fc5 (2007-225)

high Nessus Plugin ID 24348

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2006-0007: The key serial number collision avoidance code in the key_alloc_serial function in Linux kernel 2.6.9 up to 2.6.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors that trigger a null dereference, as originally reported as 'spinlock CPU recursion.'

Major rebase to upstream linux kernel 2.6.19.3:
www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.19 www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.19.1 www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.19.2 www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.19.3

This update also introduces 'kernel-debug', a variant with additional debugging options enabled. These kernels may run with lower performance and increased memory overhead than the non-debug variants.

Bugs fixed: 214495, 211672

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.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c0a80506

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 24348

File Name: fedora_2007-225.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/15/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: 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-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-kdump-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen0, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen0-devel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xenu, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-kdump, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xenu-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp-debug, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen-devel

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/13/2007

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2007-225