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Oracle Linux 8 : bind9.16 (ELSA-2024-1781)

high Nessus Plugin ID 193262

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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-2024-1781 advisory.

 - Prevent crashing at masterformat system test (CVE-2023-6516)
 - Prevent increased CPU load on large DNS messages (CVE-2023-4408)
 - Prevent assertion failure when nxdomain-redirect is used with RFC 1918 reverse zones (CVE-2023-5517)
 - Prevent assertion failure if DNS64 and serve-stale is used (CVE-2023-5679)
 - Specific recursive query patterns may lead to an out-of-memory condition (CVE-2023-6516)
 - Prevent increased CPU consumption in DNSSEC validator (CVE-2023-50387 CVE-2023-50868)
 - Add downstream change complementing CVE-2023-50387
 - Limit the amount of recursion possible in control channel (CVE-2023-3341)

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-2024-1781.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 193262

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-1781.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/12/2024

Updated: 11/2/2024

Supported Sensors: 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-2023-6516

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:/a:oracle:linux:8:10:appstream_base, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::codeready_builder, 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, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::appstream, 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: 4/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/13/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-4408, CVE-2023-50387, CVE-2023-50868, CVE-2023-5517, CVE-2023-5679, CVE-2023-6516