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Fedora 7 : kernel-2.6.22.7-85.fc7 (2007-2298)

high Nessus Plugin ID 27765

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to official Linux 2.6.22.6 (from 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

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

 - libata: fix DMA on ATAPI devices with it821x (#242229)

 - libata: fix cable detection on pata_via

 - fix vmware's broken SCSI device emulation (#241935)

 - fix init of huawei 220 modem (#253096)

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

 - net: fix oops with zero-length packet

 - USB: three trivial fixes

 - futex: fix compat list traversal

 - CFS scheduler update

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

 - wireless driver update

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?23803294

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 27765

File Name: fedora_2007-2298.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2007

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:7

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/25/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4573

CWE: 264

FEDORA: 2007-2298