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openSUSE Security Update : pdns (openSUSE-2018-491)

high Nessus Plugin ID 110065

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for pdns fixes the following issue :

 - CVE-2018-1046: An issue has been found in the dnsreplay tool provided with PowerDNS Authoritative, where replaying a specially crafted PCAP file can trigger a stack-based buffer overflow, leading to a crash and potentially arbitrary code execution. This buffer overflow only occurs when the -ecs-stamp option of dnsreplay is used. (boo#1092540)

Solution

Update the affected pdns packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1092540

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 110065

File Name: openSUSE-2018-491.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/24/2018

Updated: 10/3/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1046

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-sqlite3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-postgresql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-ldap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-mydns-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-remote-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-remote, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-geoip-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-mydns, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-mysql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-geoip, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-lua-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-ldap, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-sqlite3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-godbc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-godbc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-lua

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/23/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1046