Fedora 12 : ntp-4.2.4p8-1.fc12 (2009-13046)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 43120

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes possible DoS with mode 7 packets. (CVE-2009-3563)

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 ntp package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531213

http://www.nessus.org/u?0ad858bc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 43120

File Name: fedora_2009-13046.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/14/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ntp, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/11/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3563

FEDORA: 2009-13046