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Debian DSA-4470-1 : pdns - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 126129

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Synopsis

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

Description

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in pdns, an authoritative DNS server which may result in denial of service via malformed zone records and excessive NOTIFY packets in a master/slave setup.

Solution

Upgrade the pdns packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.3-1+deb9u5.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/pdns

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4470

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 126129

File Name: debian_DSA-4470.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/24/2019

Updated: 5/14/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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-2019-10162

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: 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/23/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/30/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10162, CVE-2019-10163

DSA: 4470