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Fedora 25 : dracut (2016-cc5006bef7)

high Nessus Plugin ID 95014

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- fixed permissions of initramfs file, if microcode is prepended (CVE-2016-8637)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected dracut package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-cc5006bef7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 95014

File Name: fedora_2016-cc5006bef7.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/21/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dracut

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/19/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/1/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-8637