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Fedora 16 : dhcp-4.2.4-1.P2.fc16 (2012-14076)

high Nessus Plugin ID 62397

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is security bugfix release fixing a security 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 dhcp package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856766

http://www.nessus.org/u?e08c13d9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 62397

File Name: fedora_2012-14076.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/3/2012

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: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/17/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3955

BID: 55530

FEDORA: 2012-14076