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Fedora 9 : pdns-recursor-3.1.7-2.fc9 (2008-6893)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 33770

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fri Jul 25 2008 Ruben Kerkhof <ruben at rubenkerkhof.com> - 3.1.7-2

 - Exclude ppc and ppc64 for now, the build fails randomly

 - Fri Jul 25 2008 Ruben Kerkhof <ruben at rubenkerkhof.com> - 3.1.7-1

 - Upstream released new version, now with Lua support

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=456054

http://www.nessus.org/u?dc73ef97

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 33770

File Name: fedora_2008-6893.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/31/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pdns-recursor, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/30/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3217

CWE: 189

FEDORA: 2008-6893