Detections
Analytics

RHEL 8 : bind9.16 (RHSA-2022:7643)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 167129

Language:

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-2022:7643 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: DNS forwarders - cache poisoning vulnerability (CVE-2021-25220)

 * bind: DoS from specifically crafted TCP packets (CVE-2022-0396)

 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.

 Additional Changes:

 For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 Release Notes linked from 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-2022:7643.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?790bc9ea

http://www.nessus.org/u?ccc5b7a0

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7643

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2064512

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2064513

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2128601

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 167129

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-7643.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/8/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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: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, 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: 11/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/16/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-25220, CVE-2022-0396

CWE: 444, 459

RHSA: 2022:7643