Debian DSA-4424-1 : pdns - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 123758

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Adam Dobrawy, Frederico Silva and Gregory Brzeski from HyperOne.com discovered that pdns, an authoritative DNS server, did not properly validate user-supplied data when building a HTTP request from a DNS query in the HTTP Connector of the Remote backend. This would allow a remote user to cause either a denial-of-service, or information disclosure.

Solution

Upgrade the pdns packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.3-1+deb9u4.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 123758

File Name: debian_DSA-4424.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 4/5/2019

Updated: 6/5/2024

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, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

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: 4/4/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3871

DSA: 4424

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