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Debian DSA-3347-1 : pdns - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 85753

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Synopsis

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

Description

Pyry Hakulinen and Ashish Shakla at Automattic discovered that pdns, an authoritative DNS server, was incorrectly processing some DNS packets; this would enable a remote attacker to trigger a DoS by sending specially crafted packets causing the server to crash.

Solution

Upgrade the pdns packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 3.4.1-4+deb8u3.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/pdns

https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3347

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 85753

File Name: debian_DSA-3347.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/3/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/2/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/15/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5230

DSA: 3347