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Debian DLA-1697-1 : bind9 security updat

medium Nessus Plugin ID 122513

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Two issues have been found in bind9, the Internet Domain Name Server.

CVE-2019-6465 Zone transfer for DLZs are executed though not permitted by ACLs.

CVE-2018-5745 Avoid assertion and thus causing named to deliberately exit when a trust anchor's key is replaced with a key which uses an unsupported algorithm.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u17.

We recommend that you upgrade your bind9 packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00043.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/bind9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 122513

File Name: debian_DLA-1697.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/1/2019

Updated: 6/18/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-6465

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libisccc90, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libbind9-90, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libirs-export91-udeb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libisc95, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libisccfg-export90-udeb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:liblwres90, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libbind-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdns-export100, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libbind-export-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libisccfg90, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:host, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dnsutils, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9-host, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdns-export100-udeb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lwresd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9utils, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libirs-export91, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libisccfg-export90, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdns100, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libisc-export95-udeb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libisc-export95

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/28/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5745, CVE-2019-6465