Fedora 14 : dhcp-4.2.0-19.P2.fc14 (2011-0862)

high Nessus Plugin ID 51842

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

A flaw was discovered in the way the dhcpd daemon processed a message for an address that had been previously declined and internally tagged as abandoned. Processing such a message could trigger an assert failure that could crash dhcpd if it was running as a DHCPv6 server.
DHCPv4 servers are unaffected. (CVE-2011-0413)

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 dhcp package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672755

http://www.nessus.org/u?74e9a8ab

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 51842

File Name: fedora_2011-0862.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/2/2011

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: 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: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dhcp, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:14

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/28/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0413

BID: 46035

FEDORA: 2011-0862