Information disclosure in Oracle Linux
CVE-2007-6283
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.
Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (34.0th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 34th percentile — 34.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Oracle Linux — versions 5.0
- Centos — versions 5
- Fedoraproject Fedora Core
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 5.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 5.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux For IBM Z Systems — versions 5.0_s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Power Big Endian — versions 5.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server — versions 5.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation — versions 5.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00671.html (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0300.html (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/28180 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9977 (signature, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/30313 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00587.html (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)