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Fedora 23 : kernel-4.4.4-301.fc23 (2016-e6cfaff4b1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 89893

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The 4.4.4 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.
This also includes an important update for XFS utils.

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=1313428

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314253

http://www.nessus.org/u?aeefc342

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 89893

File Name: fedora_2016-e6cfaff4b1.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/11/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2847