Fedora 20 : kernel-3.15.7-200.fc20 (2014-9010)

high Nessus Plugin ID 76984

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The 3.15.7 stable update contains a number of important fixes throughout 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=1111180

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1114089

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1122982

http://www.nessus.org/u?df6bb5ce

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 76984

File Name: fedora_2014-9010.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/4/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/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/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/30/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3534, CVE-2014-4171, CVE-2014-5077

BID: 68157, 68881, 68940

FEDORA: 2014-9010