Detections
Analytics
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
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 24766
File Name: fedora_2007-277.nasl
Version: 1.16
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
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