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openSUSE 15 Security Update : bind (openSUSE-SU-2022:0945-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 159224

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2022:0945-1 advisory.

 - BIND 9.11.0 -> 9.11.36 9.12.0 -> 9.16.26 9.17.0 -> 9.18.0 BIND Supported Preview Editions: 9.11.4-S1 -> 9.11.36-S1 9.16.8-S1 -> 9.16.26-S1 Versions of BIND 9 earlier than those shown - back to 9.1.0, including Supported Preview Editions - are also believed to be affected but have not been tested as they are EOL.
 The cache could become poisoned with incorrect records leading to queries being made to the wrong servers, which might also result in false information being returned to clients. (CVE-2021-25220)

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 affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1197135

http://www.nessus.org/u?2749f7bb

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-25220

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 159224

File Name: openSUSE-2022-0945-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/25/2022

Updated: 12/12/2022

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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-2021-25220

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bind-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libirs-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bind-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libbind9-1600, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-bind, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libisccc1600, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libisccfg1600, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libns1604, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libisc1606, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libdns1605, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libirs1601, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bind-chrootenv, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bind

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/16/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-25220

IAVA: 2022-A-0122-S