openSUSE 10 Security Update : perl-Net-DNS (perl-Net-DNS-3961)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27387

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

perl-Net-DNS used sequential IDs for DNS lookups which could cause problem with some programs like spamassassin. It potentially also simplified DNS spoofing attacks against perl-Net-DNS (CVE-2007-3377).

Additionally malformed compressed DNS packets could trigger an endless loop in perl-Net-DNS (CVE-2007-3409).

Solution

Update the affected perl-Net-DNS package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27387

File Name: suse_perl-Net-DNS-3961.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/17/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl-net-dns

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/25/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3377, CVE-2007-3409

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