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Fedora 17 : bind-dyndb-ldap-1.1.0-0.11.rc1.fc17 (2012-6666)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 59259

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to the 1.1.0rc1 version which fixes CVE-2012-2134.

 - it was possible to DoS named process by query which contained non-alphabet characters and which belongs to zone served by the plugin. (CVE-2012-2134)

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-dyndb-ldap package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=815846

http://www.nessus.org/u?1a71a0e0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 59259

File Name: fedora_2012-6666.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/29/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind-dyndb-ldap, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/26/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2134

BID: 53236

FEDORA: 2012-6666