ISC BIND Memory Leak DoS Vulnerability

high Nessus Plugin ID 122505

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Synopsis

The remote name server is affected by a Memory Leak DoS vulnerability.

Description

According to its self-reported version, the instance of ISC BIND 9 running on the remote name server is less than 9.11.5-P4 / 9.11.5-S5 / 9.12.3-P4 / 9.13.7. It is, therefore, affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

- A memory leak vulnerability exists for named's memory use. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can cause named's memory use to grow without bounds until all memory available to the process is exhausted. (CVE-2018-5744)

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

Solution

Upgrade to ISC BIND version 9.11.5-P4 / 9.12.3-P4 / 9.13.7 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 122505

File Name: bind9_CVE-2018-5744.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: remote

Family: DNS

Published: 3/1/2019

Updated: 11/8/2019

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

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-2018-5744

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:/a:isc:bind

Required KB Items: Settings/ParanoidReport, bind/version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/21/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/21/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5744

BID: 107125

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