Fedora 20 : bind-9.9.4-17.P2.fc20 (2014-16607)

high Nessus Plugin ID 80091

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix for CVE-2014-8500

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 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1171912

http://www.nessus.org/u?b6667cb9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 80091

File Name: fedora_2014-16607.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/18/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bind, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/12/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8500

FEDORA: 2014-16607