Debian DLA-672-1 : bind9 security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 94184

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2016-2848 A server vulnerable to this defect can be forced to exit with an assertion failure if it receives a malformed packet.
Authoritative and recursive servers are both vulnerable.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u12.

We recommend that you upgrade your bind9 packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/10/msg00027.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/bind9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 94184

File Name: debian_DLA-672.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/21/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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 v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libbind9-80, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9utils, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libisccfg82, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:host, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libisc84, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libbind-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dnsutils, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9-host, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:liblwres80, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libisccc80, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdns88, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lwresd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/20/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2848