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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-492-1 pdns -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

29 May 2016

Affected Packages:

pdns

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-7210.

More information:

It was discovered that the maintainer scripts of pdns-backend-mysql grant too wide database permissions for the pdns user. Other backends are not affected.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 3.1-4.1+deb7u1.

Note that if you're running the pdns server with the mysql backend these additional grants are not removed automatically since they might have been added on purpose. Check

/usr/share/doc/pdns-backend-mysql/NEWS.Debian.gz

on how to remove them.

We recommend that you upgrade your pdns packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS