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Fedora Core 6 : kernel-2.6.22.7-57.fc6 (2007-712)

high Nessus Plugin ID 26116

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to official Linux 2.6.22.6 (previously 2.6.22.6-rc1):
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.22.6

Update to Linux 2.6.22.7:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.22.7

 - USB: three trivial fixes

 - futex: fix compat list traversal

 - Restore ofpath functionality (IDE_PROC_FS=y)(#289931)

 - add option to disable DMA on libata PATA devices (libata.pata_dma, see kernel-parameters.txt)

 - fix DMA on ATAPI devices with it821x

 - fix cable detection on pata_via

 - fix vmware's broken SCSI device emulation

 - fix init of huawei 220 modem

 - LVM: fix hang and lockups during snapshot (#269541)

 - net: fix oops with zero-length packet (#253290)

 - CFS scheduler updates

 - utrace update (#248532, #267161, #284311)

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?e123602e

http://www.nessus.org/u?b283394b

http://www.nessus.org/u?c5f91e78

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 26116

File Name: fedora_2007-712.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/25/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

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

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, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4573

CWE: 264

FEDORA: 2007-712