CentOS 5 / 6 / 7 : bind (CESA-2016:0459)

high Nessus Plugin ID 89970

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Synopsis

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

Description

Updated bind packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. BIND includes a DNS server (named); a resolver library (routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS); and tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating correctly.

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND parsed signature records for DNAME records. By sending a specially crafted query, a remote attacker could use this flaw to cause named to crash.
(CVE-2016-1286)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND processed certain control channel input. A remote attacker able to send a malformed packet to the control channel could use this flaw to cause named to crash. (CVE-2016-1285)

Red Hat would like to thank ISC for reporting these issues.

All bind users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. After installing the update, the BIND daemon (named) will be restarted automatically.

Solution

Update the affected bind packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89970

File Name: centos_RHSA-2016-0459.nasl

Version: 2.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 3/17/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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-2016-1286

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-pkcs11-utils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-pkcs11-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-sdb-chroot, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-sdb, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-chroot, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-pkcs11-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-license, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-libs-lite, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:caching-nameserver, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-libbind-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-lite-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-pkcs11, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-utils

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/16/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/9/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1285, CVE-2016-1286

RHSA: 2016:0459

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