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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM : Bind vulnerability (USN-6183-2)

high Nessus Plugin ID 178445

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6183-2 advisory.

 USN-6183-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Bind. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

 Original advisory details:

 Shoham Danino, Anat Bremler-Barr, Yehuda Afek, and Yuval Shavitt discovered

 that Bind incorrectly handled the cache size limit. A remote attacker could

 possibly use this issue to consume memory, leading to a denial of service.

 (CVE-2023-2828)

 It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled the recursive-clients

 quota. 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, Ubuntu 22.10, and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-2911)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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-6183-2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 178445

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6183-2.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/18/2023

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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-2023-2828

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:libisccc-export140-udeb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns100, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblwres160, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccfg160, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbind-export-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbind9-140, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccc-export140, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblwres141, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccfg-export160, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbind9-160, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccc140, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libirs160, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lwresd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbind-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccfg140, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccc-export160, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns-export1100, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblwres90, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns-export162, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisc169, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccc90, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccfg90, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns1100, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisc-export160, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:host, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dnsutils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisc160, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libirs141, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisc-export169, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbind9-90, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisc95, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccc160, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libirs-export160, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccfg-export140, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9-host, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libirs-export141, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns162

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/18/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/21/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-2828

IAVA: 2023-A-0320-S

USN: 6183-2