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Fedora 24 : kernel (2016-5ec2475e3f)

high Nessus Plugin ID 95676

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

The 4.8.12 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 update system website.
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://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-5ec2475e3f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 95676

File Name: fedora_2016-5ec2475e3f.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/12/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

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: 7.8

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:24, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/9/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/28/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9755, CVE-2016-9756, CVE-2016-9777