Fedora 20 : kernel-3.14.6-200.fc20 (2014-7128)

high Nessus Plugin ID 74478

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The 3.14.6 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=1103626

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104097

http://www.nessus.org/u?b80bb35d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 74478

File Name: fedora_2014-7128.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/12/2014

Updated: 5/25/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

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: 6/10/2014

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 6/15/2022

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Android "Towelroot" Futex Requeue Kernel Exploit)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3153, CVE-2014-3940

BID: 67786, 67906

FEDORA: 2014-7128