The resolver in dnscache in Daniel J. Bernstein djbdns 1.05 overwrites cached server names and TTL values in NS records during the processing of a response to an A record query, which allows remote attackers to trigger continued resolvability of revoked domain names via a "ghost domain names" attack.

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

  - The resolver in dnscache in Daniel J. Bernstein djbdns 1.05 overwrites cached server names and TTL values     in NS records during the processing of a response to an A record query, which allows remote attackers to     trigger continued resolvability of revoked domain names via a ghost domain names attack. (CVE-2012-1191)

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

This update fixes a security issue - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=838761.

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
253808	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2012-1191	Nessus	Misc.	medium
64410	Fedora 16 : ndjbdns-1.05.6-1.fc16 (2013-1301)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
64405	Fedora 17 : ndjbdns-1.05.6-1.fc17 (2013-1204)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
64401	Fedora 18 : ndjbdns-1.05.6-1.fc18 (2013-1176)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

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CVE-2012-1191

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Tenable Plugins

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