Debian DSA-2964-1 : iodine - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 76171

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Oscar Reparaz discovered an authentication bypass vulnerability in iodine, a tool for tunneling IPv4 data through a DNS server. A remote attacker could provoke a server to accept the rest of the setup or also network traffic by exploiting this flaw.

Solution

Upgrade the iodine packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.0~rc1-12+deb7u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 76171

File Name: debian_DSA-2964.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 6/23/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:iodine, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/21/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-4168

BID: 68069

DSA: 2964

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