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Fedora 38 : unbound (2024-c967c7d287)

high Nessus Plugin ID 191138

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-c967c7d287 advisory.

 - Fix CVE-2023-50387, DNSSEC verification complexity can be exploited to exhaust CPU resources and stall DNS resolvers.
 - Fix CVE-2023-50868, NSEC3 closest encloser proof can exhaust CPU.


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 unbound package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-c967c7d287

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 191138

File Name: fedora_2024-c967c7d287.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/29/2024

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

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-2023-50387

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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:unbound

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/13/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/13/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-50387, CVE-2023-50868