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PowerDNS < 2.9.18 Multiple Vulnerabilities
medium Nessus Plugin ID 87945
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Synopsis
The remote name server is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.Description
According to its self-reported version number, the version of the PowerDNS service listening on the remote host is prior to 2.9.18. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities :- A flaw exists due to improper escaping of LDAP queries.
A remote attacker can exploit this to cause a denial of service condition or to conduct LDAP injection attacks.
(CVE-2005-2301)
- A denial of service vulnerability exists when allowing recursion to a restricted range of IP addresses due to improper handling of questions from clients that are denied a recursion. An attacker can exploit this to prevent answers to those clients that are allowed to use recursion. (CVE-2005-2302)
Note that Nessus has not attempted to exploit these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Upgrade to PowerDNS version 2.9.18 or later.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 87945
File Name: powerdns_2_9_18.nasl
Version: 1.3
Type: remote
Family: DNS
Published: 1/15/2016
Updated: 7/25/2018
Configuration: Enable paranoid mode
Supported Sensors: 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: cpe:/a:powerdns:powerdns
Required KB Items: Settings/ParanoidReport, pdns/version, pdns/version_full, pdns/version_source
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 7/16/2005
Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/16/2005
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2005-2301, CVE-2005-2302