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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-6283

Original release date:12/18/2007
Last revised:04/08/2009
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Fedora install the Bind /etc/rndc.key file with world-readable permissions, which allows local users to perform unauthorized named commands, such as causing a denial of service by stopping named.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:4.9 (MEDIUM) (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.9
Exploitability Subscore: 3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (05/21/2008)
An update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was released to correct this issue: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0300.html

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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2007-6283
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0300
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30313
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2007-4658
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2007-4655
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28180

Vulnerable software and versions

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Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)
  • Information Leak / Disclosure (CWE-200)