Fedora 8 : bind-9.5.0-20.b1.fc8 (2007-4655)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 29763

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- bind-chroot-admin called restorecon on /proc filesystem (#405281)

- 9.5.0b1 release (#405281, #392491)

- stop with initscript will fail if rndc was disabled (#417431)

- fixed IDN support in dig and host utilities (#412241)

- added dst/gssapi.h to -devel subpackage (#419091)

- CVE-2007-6283 - /etc/rndc.key file had insecure permissions

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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 29763

File Name: fedora_2007-4655.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 12/24/2007

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: 4.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind-utils, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind-chroot, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind-libs, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind-sdb

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/20/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6283

CWE: 200

FEDORA: 2007-4655

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