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Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-5383 (kernel)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Fedora Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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 the kernel announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-5383.

Insight

Insight

Update Information: Update to kernel 2.6.27.24: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.24 Includes ext4 bug fixes from Fedora 11. Updates the atl2 network driver to version 2.0.5 ChangeLog: * Wed May 20 2009 Chuck Ebbert 2.6.27.24-78.2.53 - Allow building the F-9 kernel on F-11. * Wed May 20 2009 Chuck Ebbert 2.6.27.24-78.2.52 - ext4 fixes from Fedora 11: linux-2.6-ext4-clear-unwritten-flag.patch linux-2.6-ext4-fake-delalloc-bno.patch linux-2.6-ext4-fix-i_cached_extent-race.patch linux-2.6-ext4-prealloc-fixes.patch * Wed May 20 2009 Chuck Ebbert 2.6.27.24-78.2.51 - Linux 2.6.27.24 - Dropped patches, merged upstream: cifs-fix-unicode-string-area-word-alignment-2.6.27.patch - Update atl2 driver to version 2.0.5

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-2009-5383