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Fedora 11 : ntp-4.2.4p7-2.fc11 (2009-5674)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 39394

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a denial of service issue if autokey is enabled (default is disabled).

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 ntp package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499694

http://www.nessus.org/u?708599c6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 39394

File Name: fedora_2009-5674.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/16/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ntp, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/30/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1252

BID: 35017

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2009-5674