Summary
The remote host is missing an update to kernel
announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-5356.
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-2009-5356
Insight
Update Information:
Update to kernel 2.6.27.24:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.22 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.23 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 2.6.27.24-170.2.68 - Enable Divas (formerly Eicon) ISDN drivers on x86_64. (#480837) * Wed May 20 2009 Chuck Ebbert 2.6.27.24-170.2.67 - Enable sfc driver for Solarflare SFC4000 network adapter (#499392) (disabled on powerpc)
* Wed May 20 2009 Chuck Ebbert 2.6.27.24-170.2.66 - Add workaround for Intel Atom erratum AAH41 (#499803) * Wed May 20 2009 Chuck Ebbert 2.6.27.24-170.2.65 - Allow building the F-10 2.6.27 kernel on F-11.
* Wed May 20 2009 Chuck Ebbert 2.6.27.24-170.2.64 - 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 2.6.27.24-170.2.63 - Merge official ext4 patches headed for -stable.
- Drop ext4 patches we already had:
linux-2.6.27-ext4-fix-header-check.patch
linux-2.6.27-ext4-print-warning-once.patch
linux-2.6.27-ext4-fix-bogus-bug-ons-in-mballoc.patch linux-2.6.27-ext4-fix-bb-prealloc-list-corruption.patch * Wed May 20 2009 Chuck Ebbert 2.6.27.24-170.2.62 - Add patches from Fedora 9:
Update the atl2 network driver to version 2.0.5
KVM: don't allow access to the EFER from 32-bit x86 guests * Wed May 20 2009 Chuck Ebbert 2.6.27.24-170.2.61 - Linux 2.6.27.24
- Fix up execshield, utrace, r8169 and drm patches for .24
References
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-5079, CVE-2009-0065, CVE-2009-1242, CVE-2009-1337, CVE-2009-1439, CVE-2009-1633 -
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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