RHEL 8 : unbound (RHSA-2020:1716)

high Nessus Plugin ID 143029

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1716 advisory.

The unbound packages provide a validating, recursive, and caching DNS or DNSSEC resolver.

Security Fix(es):

* unbound: command injection with data coming from a specially crafted IPSECKEY answer (CVE-2019-18934)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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 unbound package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:1716.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?12173dc5

http://www.nessus.org/u?dd7b3f20

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1716

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1775708

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1776762

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 143029

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1716.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/18/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-18934

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:unbound-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:unbound-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-unbound, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:unbound, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/28/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/19/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-18934

CWE: 78

RHSA: 2020:1716