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HistoryJan 12, 2012 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian DSA-2385-1 : pdns - packet loop

2012-01-1200:00:00
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15

5 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.008 Low

EPSS

Percentile

82.0%

Ray Morris discovered that the PowerDNS authoritative server responds to response packets. An attacker who can spoof the source address of IP packets can cause an endless packet loop between a PowerDNS authoritative server and another DNS server, leading to a denial of service.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-2385. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(57525);
  script_version("1.9");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2012-0206");
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"2385");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-2385-1 : pdns - packet loop");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Ray Morris discovered that the PowerDNS authoritative server responds
to response packets. An attacker who can spoof the source address of
IP packets can cause an endless packet loop between a PowerDNS
authoritative server and another DNS server, leading to a denial of
service."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/pdns"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2385"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the pdns packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.9.21.2-1+lenny1.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.9.22-8+squeeze1."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/01/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/01/12");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"5.0", prefix:"pdns", reference:"2.9.21.2-1+lenny1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"pdns-backend-geo", reference:"2.9.22-8+squeeze1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"pdns-backend-ldap", reference:"2.9.22-8+squeeze1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"pdns-backend-mysql", reference:"2.9.22-8+squeeze1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"pdns-backend-pgsql", reference:"2.9.22-8+squeeze1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"pdns-backend-pipe", reference:"2.9.22-8+squeeze1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"pdns-backend-sqlite", reference:"2.9.22-8+squeeze1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"pdns-backend-sqlite3", reference:"2.9.22-8+squeeze1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"pdns-doc", reference:"2.9.22-8+squeeze1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"pdns-server", reference:"2.9.22-8+squeeze1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
debiandebian_linuxpdnsp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns
debiandebian_linux5.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0
debiandebian_linux6.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

5 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.008 Low

EPSS

Percentile

82.0%