RHEL 8 : unbound (RHSA-2025:0837)

high Nessus Plugin ID 214827

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for unbound.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:0837 advisory.

The unbound packages provide a validating, recursive, and caching DNS or DNSSEC resolver.

Security Fix(es):

* unbound: unrestricted reconfiguration enabled to anyone that may lead to local privilege escalation (CVE-2024-1488)

* unbound: Unbounded name compression could lead to Denial of Service (CVE-2024-8508)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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 RHEL unbound package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:0837.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 214827

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-0837.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/30/2025

Updated: 1/30/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-1488

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-unbound, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:unbound, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:unbound-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:unbound-libs, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/30/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/15/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-1488, CVE-2024-8508

CWE: 276, 606

RHSA: 2025:0837

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