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Fedora 17 : kernel-3.6.7-4.fc17 (2012-18684)

low Nessus Plugin ID 63013

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2012-4461: kvm: invalid opcode oops on SET_SREGS with OSXSAVE bit set

Update to upstream stable release 3.6.7

Assorted other 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=862900

http://www.nessus.org/u?1e42cae7

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 63013

File Name: fedora_2012-18684.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/23/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17, 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: 11/21/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4461

BID: 56414

FEDORA: 2012-18684