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Debian DSA-409-1 : bind - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 15246

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in BIND, a domain name server, whereby a malicious name server could return authoritative negative responses with a large TTL (time-to-live) value, thereby rendering a domain name unreachable. A successful attack would require that a vulnerable BIND instance submit a query to a malicious nameserver.

The bind9 package is not affected by this vulnerability.

Solution

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1:8.3.3-2.0woody2.

We recommend that you update your bind package.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-409

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 15246

File Name: debian_DSA-409.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/5/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0914

BID: 9114

CERT: 734644

DSA: 409