Fedora 21 : bind-9.9.6-8.P1.fc21 (2015-2543)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 81656

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes :

- Bug #1193820 - CVE-2015-1349 bind: issue in trust anchor management can cause named to crash

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=1193820

http://www.nessus.org/u?172a2d0c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 81656

File Name: fedora_2015-2543.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/6/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/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: 2/25/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1349

BID: 72673

FEDORA: 2015-2543