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Fedora Core 5 : bind-9.3.4-1.fc5 (2007-164)

high Nessus Plugin ID 24300

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

Fixed two security bugs

 - DNSSEC denial of service

 - BIND might crash after attempting to read free()-ed memory

and some common bugs

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e91dc9ac

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 24300

File Name: fedora_2007-164.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/9/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind-chroot, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind-libbind-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind-libs, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind-sdb, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind-utils, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:caching-nameserver, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/31/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-0493, CVE-2007-0494

FEDORA: 2007-164