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Oracle Linux 8 : bind9.16 (ELSA-2023-2792)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 176273

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2023-2792 advisory.

 - Handle subtle difference between upstream and rhel (CVE-2022-3094)
 - Prevent flooding with UPDATE requests (CVE-2022-3094)
 - Handle RRSIG queries when server-stale is active (CVE-2022-3736)
 - Fix crash when soft-quota is reached and serve-stale is active (CVE-2022-3924)
 - Bound the amount of work performed for delegations (CVE-2022-2795)
 - Fix possible serve-stale related crash (CVE-2022-3080)
 - Fix memory leak in ECDSA verify processing (CVE-2022-38177)

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

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2023-2792.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 176273

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2023-2792.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/24/2023

Updated: 11/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, 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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 1.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2795

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind9.16-chroot, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind9.16-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind9.16-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-bind9.16, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind9.16-libs, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind9.16-dnssec-utils, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind9.16-utils, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind9.16-license, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind9.16

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/21/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2795, CVE-2022-3094, CVE-2022-3736, CVE-2022-3924