The 4.4.7 update contains a number of important fixes across the kernel tree
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.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2016-8e858f96b8.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(90656);
script_version("2.7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8839", "CVE-2016-3672", "CVE-2016-3951");
script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2016-8e858f96b8");
script_name(english:"Fedora 23 : kernel-4.4.7-300.fc23 (2016-8e858f96b8)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"The 4.4.7 update contains a number of important fixes across the
kernel tree
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."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1323577"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324749"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324782"
);
# https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/182730.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?736f4da1"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected kernel package."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/04/19");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/04/22");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^23([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 23.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC23", reference:"kernel-4.4.7-300.fc23")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "kernel");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
fedoraproject | fedora | kernel | p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:kernel |
fedoraproject | fedora | 23 | cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23 |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8839
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-3672
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-3951
www.nessus.org/u?736f4da1
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1323577
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324749
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324782