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Fedora 21 : knot-1.5.2-1.fc21 (2014-10507)

high Nessus Plugin ID 77788

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

New upstream release :

 - CVE-2014-0486: remote crash using crafted DNS message

 - transfers: do not refuse AXFR answers to IXFR queries

 - fix storing of hash character '#' in zone file

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 knot package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b93b8980

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 77788

File Name: fedora_2014-10507.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/23/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:knot

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/10/2014

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2014-10507