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Debian DSA-3096-1 : pdns-recursor - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 79883

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Florian Maury from ANSSI discovered a flaw in pdns-recursor, a recursive DNS server : a remote attacker controlling maliciously-constructed zones or a rogue server could affect the performance of pdns-recursor, thus leading to resource exhaustion and a potential denial-of-service.

Solution

Upgrade the pdns-recursor packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 3.3-3+deb7u1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.6.2-1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/pdns-recursor

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3096

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 79883

File Name: debian_DSA-3096.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/15/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns-recursor, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/11/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8601

BID: 71545

DSA: 3096