CVE-2007-6283

MediumCVSS 4.9/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.9/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-200

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/28180Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30313Third Party Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0300.htmlVendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2007-6283Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9977Third Party Advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00587.htmlVendor Advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00671.htmlVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28180Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30313Third Party Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0300.htmlVendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2007-6283Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9977Third Party Advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00587.htmlVendor Advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00671.htmlVendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Dec 18, 2007
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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