RHEL 6 : bind (RHSA-2017:1582)

high Nessus Plugin ID 101099

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for bind.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:1582 advisory.

The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols.
BIND includes a DNS server (named); a resolver library (routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS); and tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating correctly.

Security Fix(es):

* A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND handled a query response containing CNAME or DNAME resource records in an unusual order. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS response. (CVE-2017-3137)

* A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND handled DNSSEC validation. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS response. (CVE-2017-3139)

Red Hat would like to thank ISC for reporting CVE-2017-3137.

Bug Fix(es):

* ICANN is planning to perform a Root Zone DNSSEC Key Signing Key (KSK) rollover during October 2017.
Maintaining an up-to-date KSK, by adding the new root zone KSK, is essential for ensuring that validating DNS resolvers continue to function following the rollover. (BZ#1458229, BZ#1458230, BZ#1458231, BZ#1458232, BZ#1458233)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL bind package based on the guidance in RHSA-2017:1582.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a8b46fbf

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1582

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1441133

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1447743

https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01466

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101099

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-1582.nasl

Version: 3.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/29/2017

Updated: 11/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-3139

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bind-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bind-sdb, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:6.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bind-chroot, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:6.6, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:6.7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bind, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:6.4, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:6.5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bind-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:6.5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bind-libs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/28/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9147, CVE-2017-3137, CVE-2017-3139

CWE: 617

RHSA: 2017:1582