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Fedora Core 6 : kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 (2007-226)

high Nessus Plugin ID 24349

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.'

Update to linux kernel 2.6.19.3:
www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.19.3

Bugs fixed: 227802, 226885, 225046, 223431

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?9033ea57

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 24349

File Name: fedora_2007-226.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/15/2007

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-pae, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-pae-debug, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-pae-debug-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-pae-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-pae-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debug-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debuginfo-common, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-doc, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-kdump, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-kdump-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-kdump-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-xen-devel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/13/2007

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2007-226