Fedora 10 : kernel-2.6.27.35-170.2.94.fc10 (2009-10165)

high Nessus Plugin ID 41973

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to kernel 2.6.27.35:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.31 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.32 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.33 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.34 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.35

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 kernel package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0c1f9d3c

http://www.nessus.org/u?f947c8cd

http://www.nessus.org/u?23036de4

http://www.nessus.org/u?4a86aa1c

http://www.nessus.org/u?cc1d8e65

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515392

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519305

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522331

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524124

http://www.nessus.org/u?0864a90d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 41973

File Name: fedora_2009-10165.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/5/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/3/2009

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Linux Kernel Sendpage Local Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2847, CVE-2009-2903, CVE-2009-3001, CVE-2009-3002, CVE-2009-3290

BID: 32676, 33113, 35647, 35724, 35850, 35851, 36038, 36379, 36512

CWE: 200, 399

FEDORA: 2009-10165