A double-free vulnerability in str2host.c in ldns 1.7.0 have unspecified impact and attack vectors.

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

  - A double-free vulnerability in parse.c in ldns 1.7.0 have unspecified impact and attack vectors.
    (CVE-2017-1000231)

  - A double-free vulnerability in str2host.c in ldns 1.7.0 have unspecified impact and attack vectors.
    (CVE-2017-1000232)

This update for ldns fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2017-1000231: Fixed a buffer overflow during token     parsing (bsc#1068711).

  - CVE-2017-1000232: Fixed a double-free vulnerability in     str2host.c (bsc#1068709).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

This update for ldns fixes the following issues :

CVE-2017-1000231: Fixed a buffer overflow during token parsing (bsc#1068711).

CVE-2017-1000232: Fixed a double-free vulnerability in str2host.c (bsc#1068709).

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

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3491-1 advisory.

    Leon Weber discovered that the ldns-keygen tool incorrectly set permissions on private keys. A local     attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain generated private keys. This issue only applied to Ubuntu     14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-3209)

    Stephan Zeisberg discovered that ldns incorrectly handled memory when processing data. A remote attacker     could use this issue to cause ldns to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute     arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-1000231, CVE-2017-1000232)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
424032	Alpine: drill, multiple ldns packages: security update to 1.7.0-r1	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
424032	Alpine: drill, multiple ldns packages: security update to 1.7.0-r1	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
400663	Alpine: drill, multiple ldns packages: security update to 1.7.0-r0 (deprecated)	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
400663	Alpine: drill, multiple ldns packages: security update to 1.7.0-r0 (deprecated)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
135163	openSUSE Security Update : ldns (openSUSE-2020-438)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
134972	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : ldns (SUSE-SU-2020:0801-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
104784	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : ldns vulnerabilities (USN-3491-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical

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