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Fedora 17 : bind-9.9.2-3.P1.fc17 (2012-19830)

high Nessus Plugin ID 63255

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes CVE-2012-5688.

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=883533

http://www.nessus.org/u?2810116d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 63255

File Name: fedora_2012-19830.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/13/2012

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: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind, 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: 12/6/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5688

BID: 56817

FEDORA: 2012-19830