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Fedora 23 : kernel-4.2.7-300.fc23 (2015-ac9a19888e)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 89366

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The 4.2.7 stable update contains a number of 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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270158

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1285326

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1286261

http://www.nessus.org/u?b32d1104

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 89366

File Name: fedora_2015-ac9a19888e.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2016

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: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 4.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/16/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7515, CVE-2015-7833, CVE-2015-8374