Fedora Core 6 : bind-9.3.4-7.P1.fc6 (2007-647)

high Nessus Plugin ID 25783

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- CVE-2007-2926 - cryptographically weak query id generator

- 1 in 8 chance of guessing the next query id for 50% of the query ids

- allows cache-poisoning type of attack, no workaround, affect only outgoing queries

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 25783

File Name: fedora_2007-647.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 7/27/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:caching-nameserver, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind-libs, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind-libbind-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind-utils, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind-sdb, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind-chroot, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/26/2007

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2007-647

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