openSUSE 10 Security Update : pdns (pdns-5836)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35028

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Remote attackers could crash pdnsd if the daemon was configured with distributor-threads=1. With the default configuration pdns is not affected by this problem (CVE-2008-5277).

Solution

Update the affected pdns packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35028

File Name: suse_pdns-5836.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/3/2008

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-sqlite3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-sqlite2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-mysql, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-postgresql

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/2/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5277

CWE: 16

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