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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns_2.9.20-8+etch1.diff.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
- 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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pipe_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pgsql_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-geo_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-server_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pgsql_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-ldap_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-pgsql_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-ldap_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-mysql_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-mysql_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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pdns/pdns-backend-geo_2.9.20-8+etch1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.