Fedora 20 : kernel-3.14.8-200.fc20 (2014-7430)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 76133

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The 3.14.8 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=1107966

http://www.nessus.org/u?f62ff6af

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 76133

File Name: fedora_2014-7430.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/19/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 6/17/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-4014

BID: 67988

FEDORA: 2014-7430