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Fedora 21 : bind-9.9.6-5.P1.fc21 (2014-16557)

high Nessus Plugin ID 80369

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

New patch release with fix for CVE-2014-8500

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=1171912

http://www.nessus.org/u?9dc8fb75

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 80369

File Name: fedora_2014-16557.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/6/2015

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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/12/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8500

BID: 71590

FEDORA: 2014-16557