dnscache in Daniel J. Bernstein djbdns 1.05 does not prevent simultaneous identical outbound DNS queries, which makes it easier for remote attackers to spoof DNS responses, as demonstrated by a spoofed A record in the Additional section of a response to a Start of Authority (SOA) query.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - dnscache in Daniel J. Bernstein djbdns 1.05 does not prevent simultaneous identical outbound DNS queries,     which makes it easier for remote attackers to spoof DNS responses, as demonstrated by a spoofed A record     in the Additional section of a response to a Start of Authority (SOA) query. (CVE-2008-4392)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

This fixes two of the cache poisoning issue in the DNS resolver - dnscache.

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
254150	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2008-4392	Nessus	Misc.	high
63499	Fedora 18 : ndjbdns-1.05.5-1.fc18 (2012-20923)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
63378	Fedora 17 : ndjbdns-1.05.5-1.fc17 (2012-20967)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
63376	Fedora 16 : ndjbdns-1.05.5-1.fc16 (2012-20959)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2008-4392

high

Tenable Plugins

high

medium

medium

medium