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Fedora 15 : bind-9.8.0-5.P2.fc15 (2011-7617)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 54950

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes CVE-2011-1910 :

 - large RRSIG RRsets and negative caching can crash named

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 bind package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708301

http://www.nessus.org/u?db61b18c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 54950

File Name: fedora_2011-7617.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/3/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/27/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1910

BID: 48007

FEDORA: 2011-7617