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openSUSE 15 Security Update : coredns (openSUSE-SU-2025:0131-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 234644

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2025:0131-1 advisory.

 - Update to version 1.12.1:
 * core: Increase CNAME lookup limit from 7 to 10 (#7153)
 * plugin/kubernetes: Fix handling of pods having DeletionTimestamp set
 * plugin/kubernetes: Revert 'only create PTR records for endpoints with hostname defined'
 * plugin/forward: added option failfast_all_unhealthy_upstreams to return servfail if all upstreams are down
 * bump dependencies, fixing boo#1239294 and boo#1239728

 - Update to version 1.12.0:
 * New multisocket plugin - allows CoreDNS to listen on multiple sockets
 * bump deps

 - Update to version 1.11.4:
 * forward plugin: new option next, to try alternate upstreams when receiving specified response codes upstreams on (functions like the external plugin alternate)
 * dnssec plugin: new option to load keys from AWS Secrets Manager
 * rewrite plugin: new option to revert EDNS0 option rewrites in responses

 - Update to version 1.11.3+git129.387f34d:
 * fix CVE-2024-51744 (bsc#1232991) build(deps): bump github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v4 from 4.5.0 to 4.5.1 (#6955)
 * core: set cache-control max-age as integer, not float (#6764)
 * Issue-6671: Fixed the order of plugins. (#6729)
 * `root`: explicit mark `dnssec` support (#6753)
 * feat: dnssec load keys from AWS Secrets Manager (#6618)
 * fuzzing: fix broken oss-fuzz build (#6880)
 * Replace k8s.io/utils/strings/slices by Go stdlib slices (#6863)
 * Update .go-version to 1.23.2 (#6920)
 * plugin/rewrite: Add 'revert' parameter for EDNS0 options (#6893)
 * Added OpenSSF Scorecard Badge (#6738)
 * fix(cwd): Restored backwards compatibility of Current Workdir (#6731)
 * fix: plugin/auto: call OnShutdown() for each zone at its own OnShutdown() (#6705)
 * feature: log queue and buffer memory size configuration (#6591)
 * plugin/bind: add zone for link-local IPv6 instead of skipping (#6547)
 * only create PTR records for endpoints with hostname defined (#6898)
 * fix: reverter should execute the reversion in reversed order (#6872)
 * plugin/etcd: fix etcd connection leakage when reload (#6646)
 * kubernetes: Add useragent (#6484)
 * Update build (#6836)
 * Update grpc library use (#6826)
 * Bump go version from 1.21.11 to 1.21.12 (#6800)
 * Upgrade antonmedv/expr to expr-lang/expr (#6814)
 * hosts: add hostsfile as label for coredns_hosts_entries (#6801)
 * fix TestCorefile1 panic for nil handling (#6802)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected coredns and / or coredns-extras packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1239294

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1239728

http://www.nessus.org/u?1cf715df

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-51744

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 234644

File Name: openSUSE-2025-0131-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/21/2025

Updated: 4/21/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-51744

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.1

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.3

Threat Score: 0.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:coredns, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:coredns-extras, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/20/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/4/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-51744