RHEL 8 : bind9.16 (RHSA-2022:6781)

high Nessus Plugin ID 165649

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for bind9.16.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6781 advisory.

The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols.
BIND includes a DNS server (named); a resolver library (routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS); and tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating correctly.

Security Fix(es):

* bind: BIND 9 resolvers configured to answer from cache with zero stale-answer-timeout may terminate unexpectedly (CVE-2022-3080)

* bind: memory leak in ECDSA DNSSEC verification code (CVE-2022-38177)

* bind: memory leaks in EdDSA DNSSEC verification code (CVE-2022-38178)

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.

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

Update the RHEL bind9.16 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:6781.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 165649

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-6781.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 10/5/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-38178

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:bind9.16-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bind9.16-dnssec-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bind9.16-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bind9.16-chroot, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bind9.16-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bind9.16-license, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-bind9.16, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bind9.16, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bind9.16-utils

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/4/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/21/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3080, CVE-2022-38177, CVE-2022-38178

CWE: 20, 401

RHSA: 2022:6781

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