Fedora 18 : kernel-3.11.9-100.fc18 (2013-21822)

high Nessus Plugin ID 71142

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The stable 3.11.9 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. The 3.11.8 stable update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

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=1030015

http://www.nessus.org/u?c8eae3e4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 71142

File Name: fedora_2013-21822.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/1/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/23/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4563

FEDORA: 2013-21822