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Fedora 17 : dnsmasq-2.65-4.fc17 (2013-1320)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 64672

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

From dnsmasq's CHANGELOG :

Add code to make behaviour for TCP DNS requests that same as for UDP requests, when a request arrives for an allowed address, but via a banned interface. This change is only active on Linux, since the relevant API is missing (AFAIK) on other platforms.

 - dnsmasq now answers local queries if --except-interface lo is used (libvirt's use case).

 - dnsmasq is now built with $RPM_OPT_FLAGS, $RPM_LD_FLAGS explicitly.

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 dnsmasq package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=894486

http://www.nessus.org/u?96e1d9b9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 64672

File Name: fedora_2013-1320.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/19/2013

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:dnsmasq, 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: 1/23/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3411, CVE-2013-0198

BID: 54353, 57458

FEDORA: 2013-1320