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CentOS 8 : unbound (CESA-2022:7622)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 167096

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2022:7622 advisory.

 - unbound: the novel ghost domain where malicious users to trigger continued resolvability of malicious domain names (CVE-2022-30698)

 - unbound: novel ghost domain attack where malicious users to trigger continued resolvability of malicious domain names (CVE-2022-30699)

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 affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7622

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 167096

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2022-7622.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/8/2022

Updated: 11/24/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-30699

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8-stream, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:unbound-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-unbound, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:unbound, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:unbound-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-30698, CVE-2022-30699

RHSA: 2022:7622