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Oracle Linux 9 : bind / and / bind-dyndb-ldap (ELSA-2024-5231)

high Nessus Plugin ID 205435

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-5231 advisory.

 - Minor fix of reclimit test backport (CVE-2024-1737)
 - Resolve CVE-2024-1975
 - Resolve CVE-2024-1737
 - Resolve CVE-2024-4076
 - Prevent crashing at masterformat system test (CVE-2023-6516)
 - Add downstream change complementing CVE-2023-50387
 - 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)
 - Limit the amount of recursion possible in control channel (CVE-2023-3341)
 - Prevent possible endless loop when refreshing stale data (CVE-2023-2911)
 - Strengten cache cleaning to prevent overflowing configured limit (CVE-2023-2828)
 - Handle subtle difference between upstream and rhel (CVE-2022-3094)
 - Prevent flooding with UPDATE requests (CVE-2022-3094)
 - Handle RRSIG queries when server-stale is active (CVE-2022-3736)
 - Fix crash when soft-quota is reached and serve-stale is active (CVE-2022-3924)
 - Bound the amount of work performed for delegations (CVE-2022-2795)
 - Fix possible serve-stale related crash (CVE-2022-3080)
 - Fix memory leak in ECDSA verify processing (CVE-2022-38177)
 - Fix memory leak in EdDSA verify processing (CVE-2022-38178)

 bind-dyndb-ldap

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-2024-5231.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 205435

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2024-5231.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/13/2024

Updated: 8/13/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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-2024-1975

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-dnssec-utils, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-utils, 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-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-dyndb-ldap, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-bind, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::codeready_builder, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-dnssec-doc, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, 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: 8/13/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-1737, CVE-2024-1975, CVE-2024-4076

IAVA: 2024-A-0442