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Fedora 20 : kernel-3.15.10-201.fc20 (2014-9959)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 77451

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update contains an important fix for NFS and a security fix for isofs CVE-2014-5471 and CVE-2014-5472.

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=1134099

http://www.nessus.org/u?8f349e10

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 77451

File Name: fedora_2014-9959.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/30/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/30/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-5471, CVE-2014-5472

BID: 69396, 69428

FEDORA: 2014-9959