FreeBSD : BIND -- multiple vulnerabilities (94599fe0-5ca3-11e8-8be1-d05099c0ae8c)

high Nessus Plugin ID 109929

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

ISC reports :

An error in zone database reference counting can lead to an assertion failure if a server which is running an affected version of BIND attempts several transfers of a slave zone in quick succession.

A problem with the implementation of the new serve-stale feature in BIND 9.12 can lead to an assertion failure in rbtdb.c, even when stale-answer-enable is off. Additionally, problematic interaction between the serve-stale feature and NSEC aggressive negative caching can in some cases cause undesirable behavior from named, such as a recursion loop or excessive logging.

Solution

Update the affected package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 109929

File Name: freebsd_pkg_94599fe05ca311e88be1d05099c0ae8c.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 5/21/2018

Updated: 10/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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-2018-5737

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: cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:bind912

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/18/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5736, CVE-2018-5737

Detections

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