Fedora 17 : bind-dyndb-ldap-1.1.0-0.14.rc1.fc17 (2012-11470)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 61580

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes CVE-2012-3429 :

- named which uses bind-dyndb-ldap plugin could crashed when received query with non-alphabetic character, like '$'

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 bind-dyndb-ldap package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842466

http://www.nessus.org/u?fc2271b8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 61580

File Name: fedora_2012-11470.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/20/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind-dyndb-ldap, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/3/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3429

BID: 54787

FEDORA: 2012-11470