Oracle Linux 7 : bind (ELSA-2023-4152)

high Nessus Plugin ID 178684

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-4152 advisory.

- Prevent the cache going over the configured limit (CVE-2023-2828)
- Tighten cache protection against record from forwarders (CVE-2021-25220)
- Include test of forwarders (CVE-2021-25220)
- Prevent excessive resource use while processing large delegations.
(CVE-2022-2795)
- Fix memory leak in ECDSA verify processing (CVE-2022-38177)
- Fix memory leak in EdDSA verify processing (CVE-2022-38178)
- Insufficient IXFR checks could lead to assertion failure (CVE-2021-25214)
- Possible assertion failure on DNAME processing (CVE-2021-25215)
- Fix off-by-one bug in ISC SPNEGO implementation (CVE-2020-8625)
- Fix tsig-request verify (CVE-2020-8622)
- Prevent PKCS11 daemon crash on crafted packet (CVE-2020-8623)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux 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://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2023-4152.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 178684

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2023-4152.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/20/2023

Updated: 11/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous 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:oracle:linux:bind-sdb-chroot, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-pkcs11-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-libs, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:7::latest, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:7:9:patch, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:7::optional_latest, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-sdb, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-license, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-pkcs11-utils, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-lite-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-utils, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-pkcs11-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-libs-lite, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-pkcs11, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-export-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-export-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-chroot

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/20/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/21/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-2828

IAVA: 2023-A-0320-S