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Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-8647 (kernel)

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

Fedora Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

10.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

14 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to kernel announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-8647.

Insight

Insight

Update Information: Fix sock_sendpage null pointer dereference. CVE-2009-2692. ChangeLog: * Fri Aug 14 2009 Kyle McMartin 2.6.27.29-170.2.79 - CVE-2009-2692: Fix sock sendpage NULL ptr deref. * Fri Jul 31 2009 Chuck Ebbert 2.6.27.29-170.2.78 - The kernel package needs to override the new rpm %install behavior. * Thu Jul 30 2009 Chuck Ebbert 2.6.27.29-170.2.77 - Linux 2.6.27.29 * Wed Jul 29 2009 Chuck Ebbert 2.6.27.29-170.2.75.rc1 - Linux 2.6.27.29-rc1 (CVE-2009-2406, CVE-2009-2407) - Drop linux-2.6-netdev-r8169-avoid-losing-msi-interrupts.patch, now in -stable. * Wed Jul 29 2009 Chuck Ebbert 2.6.27.28-170.2.74 - Don't bounce virtio_blk requests (#510304)

Solution

Solution

Apply the appropriate updates. This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use su -c 'yum update kernel' at the command line. For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2009-8647