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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : bind9 vulnerabilities (USN-888-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 44106

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

It was discovered that Bind would incorrectly cache bogus NXDOMAIN responses. When DNSSEC validation is in use, a remote attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service, and possibly poison DNS caches. (CVE-2010-0097)

USN-865-1 provided updated Bind packages to fix a security vulnerability. The upstream security patch to fix CVE-2009-4022 was incomplete and CVE-2010-0290 was assigned to the issue. This update corrects the problem.

Michael Sinatra discovered that Bind did not correctly validate certain records added to its cache. When DNSSEC validation is in use, a remote attacker could exploit this to spoof DNS entries and poison DNS caches. Among other things, this could lead to misdirected email and web traffic.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/888-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 44106

File Name: ubuntu_USN-888-1.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/21/2010

Updated: 9/19/2019

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: 4.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns50, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblwres40, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblwres30, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns21, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisc50, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbind9-50, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns36, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisc45, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccfg1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns23, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lwresd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccc0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbind-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbind9-40, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisc11, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns45, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisc44, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblwres50, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccc50, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns46, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbind9-0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns53, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccfg30, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisc35, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbind9-30, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccfg40, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dnsutils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccc30, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblwres9, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns43, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccc40, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccfg50, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns35, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9-host, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns44

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/20/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/25/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-4022, CVE-2010-0097, CVE-2010-0290

BID: 37865

USN: 888-1