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RHEL 6 : bind (RHSA-2018:2571)

high Nessus Plugin ID 112134

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for bind.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2571 advisory.

 - bind: processing of certain records when deny-answer-aliases is in use may trigger an assert leading to a denial of service (CVE-2018-5740)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-2018:2571.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1613595

https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01639

http://www.nessus.org/u?0cf2b3be

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2571

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 112134

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-2571.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/28/2018

Updated: 8/14/2024

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-2018-5740

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, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bind-chroot, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bind, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bind-devel, 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: 8/27/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5740

CWE: 617

RHSA: 2018:2571