ldns vulnerabilities

22 November 2017

ldns vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 17.10
• Ubuntu 17.04
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in ldns.

Software Description

• ldns - ldns library for DNS programming

Details

Leon Weber discovered that the ldns-keygen tool incorrectly set permissions on private keys. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain generated private keys. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-3209)

Stephan Zeisberg discovered that ldns incorrectly handled memory when processing data. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause ldns to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-1000231, CVE-2017-1000232)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 17.10

libldns2 - 1.7.0-1ubuntu1.17.10.1

Ubuntu 17.04

libldns2 - 1.7.0-1ubuntu1.17.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

libldns1 - 1.6.17-8ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

libldns1 - 1.6.17-1ubuntu0.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2014-3209
• CVE-2017-1000231
• CVE-2017-1000232