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openSUSE Security Update : pdns-recursor (pdns-recursor-1945)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 44615

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update of pdns-rucursor improves the packet parsing code to fix a possible DNS spoofing vulnerability (CVE-2009-4010) and a remote buffer overflow that could give the ability to execute arbitrary code (CVE-2009-4009).

Solution

Update the affected pdns-recursor package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567990

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 44615

File Name: suse_11_1_pdns-recursor-100209.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/15/2010

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-recursor, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/9/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-4009, CVE-2009-4010

CWE: 119