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Fedora 18 : kernel-3.6.7-5.fc18 (2012-18740)

low Nessus Plugin ID 63055

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixes CVE-2012-4461 and adds support for two rebranded BCM20702A0 bluetooth adapters. Also adds 1/2 of the fix for bug 859485. Latest upstream stable release v3.6.7. As usual, fixes across the tree. In addition to the listed bugs, this also fixes :

 - correct module signatures on PAE and -debug/PAEdebug kernel flavours

 - external module builds with module signing

 - vanilla kernel builds

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?9c5dfa74

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 63055

File Name: fedora_2012-18740.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/27/2012

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:18, 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: 2012-18740