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Fedora 17 : openssh-5.9p1-29.fc17 (2013-2206)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 64883

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update changes default of MaxStartups to 10:30:100 to start doing random early drop at 10 connections up to 100 connections - CVE-2010-5107

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 openssh package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908707

http://www.nessus.org/u?60608078

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 64883

File Name: fedora_2013-2206.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/26/2013

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: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/9/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-5107

FEDORA: 2013-2206