RHEL 5 : bind97 (RHSA-2011:1459)

high Nessus Plugin ID 56867

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for bind97.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1459 advisory.

- bind: Remote denial of service against recursive servers via logging negative cache entry (CVE-2011-4313)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL bind97 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2011:1459.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 56867

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-1459.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/18/2011

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-4313

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:bind97-chroot, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bind97, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bind97-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bind97-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bind97-devel

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: 11/17/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/29/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4313

BID: 50690

RHSA: 2011:1459

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