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Fedora 18 : kernel-3.6.3-3.fc18 (2012-16787)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62864

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The Linux 3.6.3 stable update contains a large number of 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=862877

http://www.nessus.org/u?e60f5fa8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62864

File Name: fedora_2012-16787.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/9/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18

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: 10/24/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0957

BID: 55855

FEDORA: 2012-16787