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Fedora 7 : bind-9.4.1-7.P1.fc7 (2007-1247)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27707

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- CVE-2007-2925 - allow-query-cache/allow-recursion default acls not set

 - workaround - disable recursion or explicitly set allow-query-cache and allow-recursion acls

 - 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.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ff04e7d2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27707

File Name: fedora_2007-1247.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:caching-nameserver, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind-libs, 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

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-2925, CVE-2007-2926

FEDORA: 2007-1247