Summary
The remote host is missing an update to unbound
announced via advisory DSA 2370-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202370-1
Insight
It was discovered that Unbound, a recursive DNS resolver, would crash when processing certain malformed DNS responses from authoritative DNS servers, leading to denial of service.
CVE-2011-4528
Unbound attempts to free unallocated memory during processing of duplicate CNAME records in a signed zone.
CVE-2011-4869
Unbound does not properly process malformed responses which lack expected NSEC3 records.
For the oldstable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.6-1~lenny2.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.6-1+squeeze2.
For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.14-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your unbound packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-4528, CVE-2011-4869 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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