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Debian DLA-843-1 : bind9 security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 97440

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2017-3135 Assertion failure when using DNS64 and RPZ can lead to crash.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u15.

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/2017/02/msg00032.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 97440

File Name: debian_DLA-843.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/1/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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: 2/28/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-3135