Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1628-1 pdns -- DNS response spoofing

Date Reported:
10 Aug 2008
Affected Packages:
pdns
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-3337.
More information:

Brian Dowling discovered that the PowerDNS authoritative name server does not respond to DNS queries which contain certain characters, increasing the risk of successful DNS spoofing (CVE-2008-3337). This update changes PowerDNS to respond with SERVFAIL responses instead.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.9.20-8+etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.9.21.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your pdns package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns_2.9.20-8+etch1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns_2.9.20-8+etch1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns_2.9.20.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns_2.9.20-8+etch1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-doc_2.9.20-8+etch1_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-geo_2.9.20-8+etch1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pipe_2.9.20-8+etch1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-ldap_2.9.20-8+etch1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-sqlite_2.9.20-8+etch1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pgsql_2.9.20-8+etch1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-mysql_2.9.20-8+etch1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-server_2.9.20-8+etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-geo_2.9.20-8+etch1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pgsql_2.9.20-8+etch1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-ldap_2.9.20-8+etch1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-mysql_2.9.20-8+etch1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-sqlite_2.9.20-8+etch1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pipe_2.9.20-8+etch1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-server_2.9.20-8+etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-sqlite_2.9.20-8+etch1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-geo_2.9.20-8+etch1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pgsql_2.9.20-8+etch1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-ldap_2.9.20-8+etch1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-mysql_2.9.20-8+etch1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pipe_2.9.20-8+etch1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-server_2.9.20-8+etch1_arm.deb
HP Precision:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pipe_2.9.20-8+etch1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-server_2.9.20-8+etch1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-sqlite_2.9.20-8+etch1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-mysql_2.9.20-8+etch1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-geo_2.9.20-8+etch1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pgsql_2.9.20-8+etch1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-ldap_2.9.20-8+etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-server_2.9.20-8+etch1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pgsql_2.9.20-8+etch1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-mysql_2.9.20-8+etch1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-ldap_2.9.20-8+etch1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-sqlite_2.9.20-8+etch1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pipe_2.9.20-8+etch1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-geo_2.9.20-8+etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-sqlite_2.9.20-8+etch1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-ldap_2.9.20-8+etch1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-geo_2.9.20-8+etch1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-mysql_2.9.20-8+etch1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pipe_2.9.20-8+etch1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-server_2.9.20-8+etch1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pgsql_2.9.20-8+etch1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-sqlite_2.9.20-8+etch1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pgsql_2.9.20-8+etch1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-geo_2.9.20-8+etch1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pipe_2.9.20-8+etch1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-server_2.9.20-8+etch1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-ldap_2.9.20-8+etch1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-mysql_2.9.20-8+etch1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-sqlite_2.9.20-8+etch1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-ldap_2.9.20-8+etch1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-geo_2.9.20-8+etch1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pgsql_2.9.20-8+etch1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pipe_2.9.20-8+etch1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-server_2.9.20-8+etch1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-mysql_2.9.20-8+etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-server_2.9.20-8+etch1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-mysql_2.9.20-8+etch1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pgsql_2.9.20-8+etch1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-sqlite_2.9.20-8+etch1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pipe_2.9.20-8+etch1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-ldap_2.9.20-8+etch1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-geo_2.9.20-8+etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-sqlite_2.9.20-8+etch1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-mysql_2.9.20-8+etch1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pipe_2.9.20-8+etch1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-server_2.9.20-8+etch1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pgsql_2.9.20-8+etch1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-geo_2.9.20-8+etch1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-ldap_2.9.20-8+etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-mysql_2.9.20-8+etch1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-geo_2.9.20-8+etch1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-ldap_2.9.20-8+etch1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pipe_2.9.20-8+etch1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pgsql_2.9.20-8+etch1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-server_2.9.20-8+etch1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-sqlite_2.9.20-8+etch1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.