Fedora 16 : pdns-3.0.1-1.fc16 (2012-0263)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 57590

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes :

- Bug #772581 - PowerDNS DoS Vulnerability

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 pdns package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7ab1f807

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772581

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 57590

File Name: fedora_2012-0263.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/19/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pdns, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/11/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0206

BID: 51355

FEDORA: 2012-0263