Detections
Analytics

Fedora 12 : kernel-2.6.31.6-162.fc12 (2009-12825)

high Nessus Plugin ID 43036

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2009-1298 null ptr deref in ipv4 ip_frag_reasm.

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544144

http://www.nessus.org/u?1da70858

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 43036

File Name: fedora_2009-12825.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/8/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1298

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2009-12825