CVE-2017-9108 · cross-distro fix matrix

CVE-2017-9108: An issue was discovered in adns before 1.5.2. adnshost mishandles a missing final newline on a stdin read. It is wrong to increment used as well as setting r, since used is incremented according to r, later. Rather one should be doing what read() would have done. Without this fix, adnshost may read

Affects 3 Linux releases across 3 (distro × package) combinations.

Fix per ecosystem

Each block below is a distro release where CVE-2017-9108 has a known fix. Run the listed command on that distro to remediate.

Debian bullseye

Source: Debian Security Tracker

adns→ fixed in1.6.0-2urgency: unimportant

sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y adns

Debian bookworm

Source: Debian Security Tracker

adns→ fixed in1.6.0-2urgency: unimportant

sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y adns

Debian trixie

Source: Debian Security Tracker

adns→ fixed in1.6.0-2urgency: unimportant

sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y adns

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