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Fedora 21 : pdns-recursor-3.6.1-1.fc21 (2014-10600)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 77790

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- PowerDNS Recursor Security Release 3.6.1

 - CVE-2014-3614

Issue: A specific sequence of packets can crash PowerDNS Recursor 3.6.0 remotely (CVE-2014-3614) Affected: All deployments of PowerDNS Recursor 3.6.0

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=1139251

http://www.nessus.org/u?1d0c9288

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 77790

File Name: fedora_2014-10600.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/23/2014

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: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pdns-recursor, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/10/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3614

BID: 69778

FEDORA: 2014-10600