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CVE-2007-6283

Impact:: Moderate
Public Date:: 2007-12-13

Bugzilla:: 419421: CVE-2007-6283 bind: /etc/rndc.key has 644 permissions by default

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2007-6283 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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An update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was released to correct this issue:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0300.html

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (bind)	RHSA-2008:0300	2008-05-20

Last Modified 2018-04-27T20:52:06+00:00

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