SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : bind (SUSE-SU-2025:0355-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 215184

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0355-1 advisory.

Update to release 9.18.33

Security Fixes:

- CVE-2024-11187: Fixes CPU exhaustion caused by many records in the additional section (bsc#1236596)
- CVE-2024-12705: Fixes multiple issues in DNS-over-HTTPS implementation when under heavy query load (bsc#1236597)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 bind, bind-doc and / or bind-utils packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 215184

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0355-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/10/2025

Updated: 2/10/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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-2024-12705

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:novell:suse_linux:bind, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bind-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bind-utils

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/4/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/29/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-11187, CVE-2024-12705

IAVA: 2025-A-0071

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0355-1

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