Debian DSA-2728-1 : bind9 - denial of service

high Nessus Plugin ID 69094

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Maxim Shudrak and the HP Zero Day Initiative reported a denial of service vulnerability in BIND, a DNS server. A specially crafted query that includes malformed rdata can cause named daemon to terminate with an assertion failure while rejecting the malformed query.

Solution

Upgrade the bind9 packages.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze11.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 69094

File Name: debian_DSA-2728.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 7/29/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/27/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4854

DSA: 2728

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