NASLDB: Debian DSA-2515-1 : nsd3 - null pointer dereference
General
ID: 60068
Name: Debian DSA-2515-1 : nsd3 – null pointer dereference
Summary: Checks dpkg output for the updated package
Credits: –
Classification
Risk: –
CVSS: –
CVSS Base Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS Temporal Vector: –
Port: 0
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Type: Local
Description
Marek Vavruša and Lubos Slovak discovered that NSD, an authoritative
domain name server, is not properly handling non-standard DNS packets.
This can result in a NULL pointer dereference and crash the handling
process. A remote attacker can abuse this flaw to perform denial of
service attacks.
Exploiting
Exploit Available: –
Exploitability Ease: –
Sources
CVE: CVE-2012-2978
OSVDB: –
Bugtraq: –
scipID: –
Timeline
Vulnerability Disclosure: –
Patch Release: 2012/07/19
Plugin Release: 2012/07/20
Plugin
Version: 1.2
Filename: debian_DSA-2515.nasl
Filesize: 2766 bytes
MD5 Hash: 8c74b47f24f8ed58a43a2742c72b7d2f
Identification: Host/local_checks_enabled
Require Keys: Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Dependencies: "ssh_get_info.nasl"
Copyright: This script is© 2012 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
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