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SUSE SLES11 Security Update : bind (SUSE-SU-2016:2405-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 93772

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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 vulnerability, where a crafted packet could cause the nameserver to abort. (CVE-2016-2776, bsc#1000362)

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 OpenStack Cloud 5:zypper in -t patch sleclo50sp3-bind-12763=1

SUSE Manager Proxy 2.1:zypper in -t patch slemap21-bind-12763=1

SUSE Manager 2.1:zypper in -t patch sleman21-bind-12763=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch sdksp4-bind-12763=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-bind-12763=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS:zypper in -t patch slessp3-bind-12763=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP2-LTSS:zypper in -t patch slessp2-bind-12763=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3:zypper in -t patch sleposp3-bind-12763=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-bind-12763=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3:zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-bind-12763=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP2:zypper in -t patch dbgsp2-bind-12763=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1000362

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2776/

http://www.nessus.org/u?c7d03875

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 93772

File Name: suse_SU-2016-2405-1.nasl

Version: 2.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/28/2016

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, 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: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC: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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/27/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/28/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2776

IAVA: 2017-A-0004