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SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : bind (SUSE-SU-2015:1480-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 85793

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Synopsis

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

Description

The nameserver bind was updated to fix a remote denial of service (crash) attack against bind nameservers doing validation on DNSSEC signed records. (CVE-2015-5722, bsc#944066).

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

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp4-bind-12067=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp3-bind-12067=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMWare 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-bind-12067=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch slessp4-bind-12067=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-bind-12067=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP2-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch slessp2-bind-12067=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp4-bind-12067=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp3-bind-12067=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-bind-12067=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-bind-12067=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp2-bind-12067=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=944066

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5722/

http://www.nessus.org/u?b019894d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 85793

File Name: suse_SU-2015-1480-1.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/4/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

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:novell:suse_linux:bind-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bind-chrootenv, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bind-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bind, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bind-doc, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, 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: 9/2/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5722