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GLSA-200801-16 : MaraDNS: CNAME Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 30128

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200801-16 (MaraDNS: CNAME Denial of Service)

 Michael Krieger reported that a specially crafted DNS could prevent an authoritative canonical name (CNAME) record from being resolved because of an 'improper rotation of resource records'.
 Impact :

 A remote attacker could send specially crafted DNS packets to a vulnerable server, making it unable to resolve CNAME records.
 Workaround :

 Add 'max_ar_chain = 2' to the 'marac' configuration file.

Solution

All MaraDNS users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-dns/maradns-1.2.12.09'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200801-16

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 30128

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200801-16.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Published: 1/30/2008

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:maradns, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/29/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0061

GLSA: 200801-16