Fedora Core 5 : perl-Net-DNS-0.60-1.fc5 (2007-612)

high Nessus Plugin ID 25658

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This brings FC-5 up to date with the latest changes to Net::DNS. See the project page here :

http://search.cpan.org/~olaf/Net-DNS-0.60/

The change for this upstream issue is included :

http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=23961

Since this fix has security implications (making DNS spoofing more difficult), pushing updates to all current versions of fedora.

Note - I know of no exploits for the security issue described above.

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 perl-Net-DNS and / or perl-Net-DNS-debuginfo packages.

See Also

https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=23961

https://metacpan.org/release/OLAF/Net-DNS-0.60

http://www.nessus.org/u?c9c8aa1b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 25658

File Name: fedora_2007-612.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/3/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-net-dns, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-net-dns-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/2/2007

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2007-612