Fedora 13 : kernel-2.6.33.8-149.fc13 (2010-13058)

high Nessus Plugin ID 48414

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to kernel 2.6.33.7:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.33.7 Unofficial 2.6.33.8 update from:
git://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jkacur/jk-2.6.git stable/linux-2.6.33.y Additional fixes taken from the 2.6.34.4 stable kernel and 2.6.36-rc1.

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?c1be70dd

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606611

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620300

http://www.nessus.org/u?6c0ba3e6

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 48414

File Name: fedora_2010-13058.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/24/2010

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: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/20/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2240, CVE-2010-2798

BID: 42124, 42505

FEDORA: 2010-13058