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EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : bind (EulerOS-SA-2019-1664)

high Nessus Plugin ID 126291

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Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the bind packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - A flaw was found in the way bind implemented tunable which limited simultaneous TCP client connections. A remote attacker could use this flaw to exhaust the pool of file descriptors available to named, potentially affecting network connections and the management of files such as log files or zone journal files. In cases where the named process is not limited by OS-enforced per-process limits, this could additionally potentially lead to exhaustion of all available free file descriptors on that system.(CVE-2018-5743)

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

Solution

Update the affected bind package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b607536b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 126291

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1664.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Published: 6/27/2019

Updated: 5/14/2024

Supported Sensors: 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:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-5743

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:huawei:euleros:bind, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:bind-chroot, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:bind-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:bind-libs-lite, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:bind-license, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:bind-pkcs11, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:bind-pkcs11-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:bind-pkcs11-utils, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:bind-utils, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/27/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5743