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Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2015-631)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87380

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

An error in the parsing of incoming responses allows some records with an incorrect class to be be accepted by BIND instead of being rejected as malformed. This can trigger a REQUIRE assertion failure when those records are subsequently cached. Intentional exploitation of this condition is possible and could be used as a denial-of-service vector against servers performing recursive queries. (CVE-2015-8000)

CVE-2015-8461 was also issued today for bind, but the Amazon Linux AMI's version of bind is not impacted by that CVE.

Solution

Run 'yum update bind' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2015-631.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87380

File Name: ala_ALAS-2015-631.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/16/2015

Updated: 4/18/2018

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-chroot, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-sdb, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-utils, cpe:/o:amazon:linux

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/15/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8000

ALAS: 2015-631

RHSA: 2015:2655