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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Bind vulnerabilities (USN-5827-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 170632

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5827-1 advisory.

 Rob Schulhof discovered that Bind incorrectly handled a large number of UPDATE messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.
 (CVE-2022-3094)

 Borja Marcos discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain RRSIG queries. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-3736)

 Maksym Odinintsev discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain answers from stale cache. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-3924)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5827-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 170632

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5827-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/25/2023

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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-2022-3924

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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9-dnsutils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dnsutils, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9-host, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9-libs

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/25/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/25/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3094, CVE-2022-3736, CVE-2022-3924

IAVA: 2023-A-0058-S

USN: 5827-1