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Amazon Linux 2 : bind (ALAS-2020-1564)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 143579

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of bind installed on the remote host is prior to 9.11.4-26.P2. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2020-1564 advisory.

 A flaw was found in bind. An assertion failure can occur when trying to verify a truncated response to a TSIG-signed request. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2020-8622)

 A flaw was found in bind. An assertion failure can occur when a specially crafted query for a zone signed with an RSA key. BIND must be compiled with --enable-native-pkcs11 for the system to be affected. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2020-8623)

 A flaw was found in bind. Updates to Update-policy rules of type subdomain are treated as if they were of type zonesub which allows updates to all parts of the zone along with the intended subdomain.
 The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity. (CVE-2020-8624)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

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

Solution

Run 'yum update bind' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2020-1564.html

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8622

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8623

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8624

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 143579

File Name: al2_ALAS-2020-1564.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/9/2020

Updated: 12/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8624

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-pkcs11-utils, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-pkcs11-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-export-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-libs-lite, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-lite-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-export-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-sdb-chroot, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-chroot, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-pkcs11-libs, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-sdb, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-license, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-utils, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-pkcs11

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/8/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/20/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8622, CVE-2020-8623, CVE-2020-8624

ALAS: 2020-1564