Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2964-1 iodine -- security update

Date Reported:
21 Jun 2014
Affected Packages:
iodine
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 751834.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-4168.
More information:

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.

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.