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openSUSE Security Update : bind (openSUSE-2016-382)

high Nessus Plugin ID 90106

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for bind fixes the following issues :

Fix two assertion failures that can lead to a remote denial of service attack :

 - CVE-2016-1285: An error when parsing signature records for DNAME can lead to named exiting due to an assertion failure. (bsc#970072)

 - CVE-2016-1286: An error when parsing signature records for DNAME records having specific properties can lead to named exiting due to an assertion failure in resolver.c or db.c. (bsc#970073)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP1:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected bind packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=970072

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=970073

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 90106

File Name: openSUSE-2016-382.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/23/2016

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bind-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bind-libs-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bind-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bind-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bind, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bind-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bind-utils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bind-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bind-libs-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bind-lwresd-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bind-lwresd, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bind-chrootenv, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bind-debugsource

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/22/2016

Reference Information

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