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VPR Score: 8.4
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This update for dnsmasq fixes the following issues :
bsc#1177077: Fixed DNSpooq vulnerabilities
CVE-2020-25684, CVE-2020-25685, CVE-2020-25686: Fixed multiple Cache Poisoning attacks.
CVE-2020-25681, CVE-2020-25682, CVE-2020-25683, CVE-2020-25687: Fixed multiple potential Heap-based overflows when DNSSEC is enabled.
Retry query to other servers on receipt of SERVFAIL rcode (bsc#1176076)
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.
Solution
To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2021-163=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP1 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP1-2021-163=1