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FreeBSD : powerdns -- multiple vulnerabilities (1c21f6a3-9415-11e9-95ec-6805ca2fa271)

high Nessus Plugin ID 126363

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Synopsis

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

Description

PowerDNS Team reports :

CVE-2019-10162: An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server allowing an authorized user to cause the server to exit by inserting a crafted record in a MASTER type zone under their control.
The issue is due to the fact that the Authoritative Server will exit when it runs into a parsing error while looking up the NS/A/AAAA records it is about to use for an outgoing notify.

CVE-2019-10163: An issue has been found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server allowing a remote, authorized master server to cause a high CPU load or even prevent any further updates to any slave zone by sending a large number of NOTIFY messages. Note that only servers configured as slaves are affected by this issue.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?85e920c1

http://www.nessus.org/u?33838e1b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 126363

File Name: freebsd_pkg_1c21f6a3941511e995ec6805ca2fa271.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 7/1/2019

Updated: 1/8/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:powerdns, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/21/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/21/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10162, CVE-2019-10163