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Fedora 17 : kernel-3.3.7-1.fc17 (2012-8314)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 59279

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The 3.3.7 stable kernel contains a number of important bug fixes.

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=822869

http://www.nessus.org/u?d5a9b2c6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 59279

File Name: fedora_2012-8314.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/29/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4131, CVE-2012-2375

BID: 50655, 53615

FEDORA: 2012-8314