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openSUSE Security Update : pdns (openSUSE-2016-1004)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 93064

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for pdns fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2016-6172: malicious primary DNS servers can crash secondaries through large transfers (boo#987872)

As mitigation, the xfr-max-received-mbytes config option was added, defaulting to to 100 (MB).

Solution

Update the affected pdns packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=987872

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 93064

File Name: openSUSE-2016-1004.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/22/2016

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-sqlite3, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-mydns, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-sqlite3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-postgresql-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-mysql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-ldap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-mydns-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-lua-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-backend-lua, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pdns-debuginfo

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/19/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6172