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FreeBSD : powerdns -- DoS vulnerability (5a5422fd-7e1a-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 18945

Synopsis

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

Description

PowerDNS is vulnerable to a temporary denial-of-service vulnerability that can be triggered using a random stream of bytes.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

https://doc.powerdns.com/md/changelog/#CHANGELOG-2-9-17

http://www.nessus.org/u?4ec1cbb4

http://www.nessus.org/u?b256f7d0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 18945

File Name: freebsd_pkg_5a5422fd7e1a11d9a9e70001020eed82.nasl

Version: 1.26

Type: Local

Published: 7/13/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

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

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: 2/14/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/18/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0428

BID: 12446