Detections
Analytics

Fedora 15 : dhcp-4.2.1-4.P1.fc15 (2011-4934)

high Nessus Plugin ID 53454

Language:

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is a SECURITY release of ISC DHCP, which fixes one security related bug (CVE-2011-0997) in dhclient.

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=689832

http://www.nessus.org/u?d5a7ce82

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 53454

File Name: fedora_2011-4934.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/18/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dhcp

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/7/2011

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0997

BID: 47176

FEDORA: 2011-4934