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Fedora 12 : kernel-2.6.31.6-166.fc12 (2009-13039)

high Nessus Plugin ID 43103

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2009-4131: EXT4 - fix insufficient permission checking which could result in arbitrary data corruption by a local unprivileged user.

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=544471

http://www.nessus.org/u?bb6d4edf

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 43103

File Name: fedora_2009-13039.nasl

Version: 1.27

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/11/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/10/2009

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-4131

BID: 37277

CWE: 264

FEDORA: 2009-13039