Fedora 26 : knot-resolver (2018-0c0671072b)

high Nessus Plugin ID 109702

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Knot Resolver 2.3.0 (2018-04-23) ================================

Security

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- fix CVE-2018-1110: denial of service triggered by malformed DNS messages (!550, !558, security!2, security!4)

- increase resilience against slow lorris attack (security!5)

Bugfixes

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- validation: fix SERVFAIL in case of CNAME to NXDOMAIN in a single zone (!538)

- validation: fix SERVFAIL for DS . query (!544)

- lib/resolve: don't send unecessary queries to parent zone (!513)

- iterate: fix validation for zones where parent and child share NS (!543)

- TLS: improve error handling and documentation (!536, !555, !559)

Improvements

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- prefill: new module to periodically import root zone into cache (replacement for RFC 7706, !511)

- network_listen_fd: always create end point for supervisor supplied file descriptor

- use CPPFLAGS build environment variable if set (!547)

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Solution

Update the affected knot-resolver package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 109702

File Name: fedora_2018-0c0671072b.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 5/11/2018

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:knot-resolver, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 5/10/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1110

FEDORA: 2018-0c0671072b

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