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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS : dnsmasq vulnerability (USN-627-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 33560

Synopsis

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

Description

Dan Kaminsky discovered weaknesses in the DNS protocol as implemented by Dnsmasq. A remote attacker could exploit this to spoof DNS entries and poison DNS caches. Among other things, this could lead to misdirected email and web traffic.

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Solution

Update the affected dnsmasq and / or dnsmasq-base packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/627-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 33560

File Name: ubuntu_USN-627-1.nasl

Version: 1.28

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/23/2008

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dnsmasq-base, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dnsmasq

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/22/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1447

BID: 30131

IAVA: 2008-A-0045

USN: 627-1