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Fedora 21 : kernel-3.17.4-302.fc21 (2014-16448)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79947

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Small bugfix update. A few AArch64 fixes and a patch to quiet a common i915 warning.

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=1170691

http://www.nessus.org/u?8f15e22f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79947

File Name: fedora_2014-16448.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/15/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/6/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9090

BID: 71250

FEDORA: 2014-16448