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HistoryAug 19, 2008 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian DSA-1628-1 : pdns - DNS response spoofing

2008-08-1900:00:00
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Brian Dowling discovered that the PowerDNS authoritative name server does not respond to DNS queries which contain certain characters, increasing the risk of successful DNS spoofing (CVE-2008-3337 ). This update changes PowerDNS to respond with SERVFAIL responses instead.

#%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-1628. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(33933);
  script_version("1.14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2008-3337");
  script_bugtraq_id(30587);
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"1628");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-1628-1 : pdns - DNS response spoofing");
  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:
"Brian Dowling discovered that the PowerDNS authoritative name server
does not respond to DNS queries which contain certain characters,
increasing the risk of successful DNS spoofing (CVE-2008-3337 ). This
update changes PowerDNS to respond with SERVFAIL responses instead."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-3337"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1628"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the pdns package.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.9.20-8+etch1."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/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_cwe_id(20);

  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:4.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/08/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2008/08/19");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2021 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:"4.0", prefix:"pdns", reference:"2.9.20-8+etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"pdns-backend-geo", reference:"2.9.20-8+etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"pdns-backend-ldap", reference:"2.9.20-8+etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"pdns-backend-mysql", reference:"2.9.20-8+etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"pdns-backend-pgsql", reference:"2.9.20-8+etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"pdns-backend-pipe", reference:"2.9.20-8+etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"pdns-backend-sqlite", reference:"2.9.20-8+etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"pdns-doc", reference:"2.9.20-8+etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"pdns-server", reference:"2.9.20-8+etch1")) 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");
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