Detections
Analytics

Fedora 17 : kernel-3.6.5-1.fc17 (2012-17462)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62830

Language:

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to latest upstream stable release.

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=871848

http://www.nessus.org/u?6efa5acf

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62830

File Name: fedora_2012-17462.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/7/2012

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: 4.7

Temporal Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/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: 11/2/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4565

BID: 56346

FEDORA: 2012-17462