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Fedora 17 : ndjbdns-1.05.5-1.fc17 (2012-20967)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63378

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This fixes two of the cache poisoning issue in the DNS resolver - dnscache.

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 ndjbdns package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=838965

http://www.nessus.org/u?5604fa86

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63378

File Name: fedora_2012-20967.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/4/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ndjbdns, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/26/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4392

BID: 33818

CWE: 362

FEDORA: 2012-20967