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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2964-1 (iodine - security update)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

9 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

Oscar Reparaz discovered an authentication bypass vulnerability in iodine, a tool for tunneling IPv4 data through a DNS server. A remote attacker could provoke a server to accept the rest of the setup or also network traffic by exploiting this flaw.

Affected Software

Affected Software

iodine on Debian Linux

Detection Method

Detection Method

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.0~rc1-12+deb7u1. For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.0~rc1-19. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.0~rc1-19. We recommend that you upgrade your iodine packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)