FreeBSD : bind -- denial of service vulnerability (cba246d2-f483-11e5-92ce-002590263bf5)

high Nessus Plugin ID 90238

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

ISC reports :

A problem parsing resource record signatures for DNAME resource records can lead to an assertion failure in resolver.c or db.c

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01353

http://www.nessus.org/u?7c03f98f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 90238

File Name: freebsd_pkg_cba246d2f48311e592ce002590263bf5.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Published: 3/28/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: 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:freebsd:freebsd:bind9-devel, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:bind910, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:bind98, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:bind99, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 3/28/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/9/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1286

FreeBSD: SA-16:13.bind