Fedora 17 : pdns-recursor-3.5-2.fc17 (2013-6316)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66283

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Update to 3.5

- This is a stability, security and bugfix update to 3.3

- Disarm dead code that causes gcc crashes on ARM (rhbz#954192)

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 pdns-recursor package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794963

http://www.nessus.org/u?3efe6a4e

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66283

File Name: fedora_2013-6316.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/1/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pdns-recursor, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/22/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1193

BID: 59348

FEDORA: 2013-6316