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Fedora 10 : dhcp-4.0.0-37.fc10 (2009-8344)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 40774

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update to the dhcp package includes fixes for CVE-2009-0692 and CVE-2009-1892. More information on these issues are available here:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0692 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1892 Note:
CVE-2009-0692 had no security consequences on Fedora, thanks to the use of FORTIFY_SOURCE

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 dhcp package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511834

http://www.nessus.org/u?ed5ea1ec

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 40774

File Name: fedora_2009-8344.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/26/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dhcp, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/7/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0692, CVE-2009-1892

BID: 35668, 35669

CWE: 119, 16

FEDORA: 2009-8344