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Fedora 33 : dnsmasq (2020-54760174b6)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 141300

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Make dnsmasq listen in default configuration only on localhost device.
bind-dynamic is not required, because localhost should not change during the life of dnsmasq.

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 dnsmasq package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-54760174b6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 141300

File Name: fedora_2020-54760174b6.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/8/2020

Updated: 2/10/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14312

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dnsmasq, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:33

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/6/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/6/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14312