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Debian DLA-1737-1 : pdns security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 123524

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A vulnerability was found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 4.0.7 and before 4.1.7. An insufficient validation of data coming from the user when building a HTTP request from a DNS query in the HTTP Connector of the Remote backend, allowing a remote user to cause a denial of service by making the server connect to an invalid endpoint, or possibly information disclosure by making the server connect to an internal endpoint and somehow extracting meaningful information about the response.

Only installations using the pdns-backend-remote package are affected.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 3.4.1-4+deb8u9.

We recommend that you upgrade your pdns packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00039.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/pdns

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 123524

File Name: debian_DLA-1737.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/1/2019

Updated: 6/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-3871

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns-server-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns-backend-ldap, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns-backend-mysql, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns-backend-pipe, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns-backend-geo, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns-backend-lmdb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns-backend-remote, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns-server, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns-backend-lua, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns-backend-pgsql, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns-backend-sqlite3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns-backend-mydns

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/29/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3871