Fedora 21 : kernel-3.19.1-201.fc21 (2015-4059)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 81991

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The 3.19.1 rebase contains improved hardware support, a number of new features, and many 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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 81991

File Name: fedora_2015-4059.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 3/23/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21, 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: 3/18/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8159, CVE-2015-2042, CVE-2015-2150

BID: 72730, 73014, 73060

FEDORA: 2015-4059

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