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HistoryMay 21, 2015 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian DLA-225-1 : dnsmasq security update

2015-05-2100:00:00
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The following vulnerability vulnerability was found in dnsmasq :

CVE-2015-3294

Remote attackers could read process memory and cause DoS via malformed DNS requests.

For Debian 6 ‘Squeeze’, these issues have been fixed in dnsmasq version 2.55-2+deb6u1.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-225-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(83747);
  script_version("2.8");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2015-3294");
  script_bugtraq_id(74452);

  script_name(english:"Debian DLA-225-1 : dnsmasq security update");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"The following vulnerability vulnerability was found in dnsmasq :

CVE-2015-3294

Remote attackers could read process memory and cause DoS via malformed
DNS requests.

For Debian 6 'Squeeze', these issues have been fixed in
dnsmasq version 2.55-2+deb6u1.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description
block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted
to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without
introducing additional issues."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/05/msg00009.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/dnsmasq"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Upgrade the affected dnsmasq, and dnsmasq-base packages."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

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

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/05/20");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/05/21");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  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:"6.0", prefix:"dnsmasq", reference:"2.55-2+deb6u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"dnsmasq-base", reference:"2.55-2+deb6u1")) 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_linuxdnsmasq-basep-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dnsmasq-base
debiandebian_linux6.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0
debiandebian_linuxdnsmasqp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dnsmasq