Fedora 16 : kernel-3.1.7-1.fc16 (2012-0145)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 57453

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to Linux 3.1.7 and assorted bugfixes. Should fix suspend/resume regression found in 3.1.5/3.1.6

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=769721

http://www.nessus.org/u?5e91aa11

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 57453

File Name: fedora_2012-0145.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/9/2012

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16, 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: 1/5/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4622

BID: 51172

FEDORA: 2012-0145