Fedora Core 5 : kernel-2.6.19-1.2288.2.1.fc5 (2007-277)

high Nessus Plugin ID 24766

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

Updated to kernel 2.6.19.5-rc1 plus additional fixes :

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.19.4

2.6.19.5-rc1: 4 V4L fixes 3 usbaudio fixes 3 wireless driver fixes 2 IDE driver cable detection fixes NFS bugfix various other fixes

CVE-2007-0772: Summary: The Linux kernel before 2.6.20.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (oops) via a crafted NFSACL 2 ACCESS request that triggers a free of an incorrect pointer.

CVE-2006-5753: Summary: Unspecified vulnerability in the listxattr system call in Linux kernel, when a 'bad inode' is present, allows local users to cause a denial of service (data corruption) and possibly gain privileges via unknown vectors.

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?d0685448

http://www.nessus.org/u?491f7f5c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 24766

File Name: fedora_2007-277.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/6/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-doc, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-kdump, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp-devel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-smp-debug, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel-kdump-devel

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/2/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-5753, CVE-2007-0772

CWE: 399

FEDORA: 2007-277