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Fedora 27 : knot-resolver (2018-a120d509ab)

high Nessus Plugin ID 109709

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Knot Resolver 2.3.0 (2018-04-23) ================================

Security

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 - fix CVE-2018-1110: denial of service triggered by malformed DNS messages (!550, !558, security!2, security!4)

 - increase resilience against slow lorris attack (security!5)

Bugfixes

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 - validation: fix SERVFAIL in case of CNAME to NXDOMAIN in a single zone (!538)

 - validation: fix SERVFAIL for DS . query (!544)

 - lib/resolve: don't send unecessary queries to parent zone (!513)

 - iterate: fix validation for zones where parent and child share NS (!543)

 - TLS: improve error handling and documentation (!536, !555, !559)

Improvements

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 - prefill: new module to periodically import root zone into cache (replacement for RFC 7706, !511)

 - network_listen_fd: always create end point for supervisor supplied file descriptor

 - use CPPFLAGS build environment variable if set (!547)

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Solution

Update the affected knot-resolver package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-a120d509ab

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 109709

File Name: fedora_2018-a120d509ab.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/11/2018

Updated: 10/9/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1110

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:knot-resolver

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/10/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1110