Fedora 7 : c-ares-1.4.0-1.fc7 (2007-0724)

high Nessus Plugin ID 27676

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

There is a vulnerability in c-ares < 1.4.0, caused by predictable DNS 'Transaction ID' field in DNS queries and can be exploited to poison the DNS cache of an application using the library if a valid ID is guessed.

http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/70ae62b0-16b0-11dc-b803-0016179b2dd5.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 c-ares, c-ares-debuginfo and / or c-ares-devel packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 27676

File Name: fedora_2007-0724.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 11/6/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:c-ares-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:c-ares, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:c-ares-devel

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/27/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3152, CVE-2007-3153

FEDORA: 2007-0724

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