Fedora 21 : maradns-2.0.12-1.fc21 (2015-14033)

high Nessus Plugin ID 85676

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes Denial-of-Service vulnerability in 'zoneserver' component. By making the zoneserver daemon free an invalid memory location, it was possible to terminate the zoneserver process. It is not known whether or not this bug is remotely exploitable. More details: http://samiam.org/blog/2015-08-19.html

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 maradns package.

See Also

http://samiam.org/blog/2015-08-19.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?f568ac6b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 85676

File Name: fedora_2015-14033.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/28/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:maradns, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/27/2015

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2015-14033