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Fedora 17 : nsd-3.2.13-1.fc17 (2012-11203)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 61469

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Updated upstream releasee for CVE-2012-2979 / VU#517036, our packages were not vulnerable Fix for CVE-2012-2978: NSD denial of service vulnerability from non-standard DNS packet from any host

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 nsd package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841268

http://www.nessus.org/u?88cbd7cc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 61469

File Name: fedora_2012-11203.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/10/2012

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: 4.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nsd, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/28/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2978

BID: 54606

FEDORA: 2012-11203