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Fedora 8 : pdns-recursor-3.1.5-1.fc8 (2008-3036)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31827

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Bug #440247 - CVE-2008-1637 pdns-recursor: perdictable query ids

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 pdns-recursor package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=440247

http://www.nessus.org/u?2143c232

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31827

File Name: fedora_2008-3036.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/11/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pdns-recursor, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/8/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1637

CWE: 189

FEDORA: 2008-3036