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Oracle Linux 8 : bind (ELSA-2020-1845)

high Nessus Plugin ID 180987

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2020-1845 advisory.

 [32:9.11.13-3]
 - Fix rwlock to be thread-safe (#1740511)

 [32:9.11.13-2]
 - Release GeoIP data on reload (#1790879)

 [32:9.11.13-1]
 - Update to 9.11.13

 [32:9.11.12-5]
 - Report failures on systemctl reload (#1739428)

 [32:9.11.12-4]
 - dhcp: Use monotonic time for detecting time jumps if available (#1729211)

 [32:9.11.12-3]
 - Backported serve-stale feature (#1664863)

 [32:9.11.12-2]
 - Add GeoLite2 support (#1564443)
 - Add GeoIP to bind-chroot (#1497646)
 - Fix wrong default GeoIP directory (#1768258)

 [32:9.11.12-1]
 - Update to 9.11.12 (#1557762)

 [32:9.11.11-1]
 - Update to 9.11.11

 [32:9.11.10-1]
 - Update to 9.11.10
 - Share pkcs11-utils and dnssec-utils manuals instead of recommend

 [32:9.11.7-1]
 - Update to 9.11.7

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-2020-1845.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 180987

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2020-1845.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/7/2023

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-6477

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-pkcs11-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-libs-lite, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-sdb-chroot, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-utils, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-pkcs11-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-license, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-pkcs11, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-pkcs11-utils, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-export-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-lite-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-export-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-bind, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-sdb, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-chroot

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: 5/5/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/20/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-6477

IAVA: 2019-A-0434-S