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Fedora 9 : nsd-3.2.2-1.fc9 (2009-5190)

high Nessus Plugin ID 38836

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security release. A one-byte overflow bug allows a carefully crafted exploit to bring down your DNS server. It is highly unlikely that this one byte overflow can lead to other (system) exploits.
http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/publications/NSD_vulnerability_announcement.ht ml

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?e1d8bc1b

http://www.nessus.org/u?85cfad1c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 38836

File Name: fedora_2009-5190.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/20/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:nsd

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/19/2009

Reference Information

BID: 35029

FEDORA: 2009-5190