Debian DLA-492-1 : pdns security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 91359

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that the maintainer scripts of pdns-backend-mysql grant too wide database permissions for the pdns user. Other backends are not affected.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 3.1-4.1+deb7u1.

Note that if you're running the pdns server with the mysql backend these additional grants are not removed automatically since they might have been added on purpose. Check

/usr/share/doc/pdns-backend-mysql/NEWS.Debian.gz

on how to remove them.

We recommend that you upgrade your pdns packages.

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.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 91359

File Name: debian_DLA-492.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 5/31/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns-backend-geo, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns-backend-ldap, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns-backend-lua, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns-backend-mysql, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns-backend-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns-backend-pipe, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns-backend-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns-backend-sqlite3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns-server, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pdns-server-dbg, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 5/29/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-7210

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