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Fedora 16 : dhcp-4.2.3-4.P1.fc16 (2011-16981)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 57309

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2011-4539 dhcpd: DoS due to processing certain regular expressions

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=761265

http://www.nessus.org/u?c8c89d76

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 57309

File Name: fedora_2011-16981.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/15/2011

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dhcp, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/11/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4539

FEDORA: 2011-16981