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Fedora 23 : kernel-4.2.8-300.fc23 (2015-c59710b05d)

high Nessus Plugin ID 89400

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The 4.2.8 stable kernel 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=1282688

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1290475

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291197

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291329

http://www.nessus.org/u?19bbb402

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89400

File Name: fedora_2015-c59710b05d.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

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

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: 12/22/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-7446, CVE-2015-7550, CVE-2015-8543