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Fedora 23 : kernel-4.2.1-300.fc23 (2015-16417)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 86113

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The 4.2.1 stable update contains a number of bug fixes across the tree. kernel-4.2.1-300.fc23 - Linux v4.2.1

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=1263139

http://www.nessus.org/u?88148c34

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 86113

File Name: fedora_2015-16417.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

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:23

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-6937

FEDORA: 2015-16417