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Amazon Linux 2 : bind (ALAS-2024-2530)

2024-04-3000:00:00
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amazon linux 2
bind
vulnerability
dns protocol
denial of service
cpu consumption
keytrap issue
dnssec
closest encloser proof
sha-1 computations
nsec3 issue
remote attackers
nessus scanner

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7.4 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.05 Low

EPSS

Percentile

92.9%

The version of bind installed on the remote host is prior to 9.11.4-26.P2. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2530 advisory.

  • Certain DNSSEC aspects of the DNS protocol (in RFC 4033, 4034, 4035, 6840, and related RFCs) allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via one or more DNSSEC responses, aka the KeyTrap issue. One of the concerns is that, when there is a zone with many DNSKEY and RRSIG records, the protocol specification implies that an algorithm must evaluate all combinations of DNSKEY and RRSIG records. (CVE-2023-50387)

  • The Closest Encloser Proof aspect of the DNS protocol (in RFC 5155 when RFC 9276 guidance is skipped) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption for SHA-1 computations) via DNSSEC responses in a random subdomain attack, aka the NSEC3 issue. The RFC 5155 specification implies that an algorithm must perform thousands of iterations of a hash function in certain situations. (CVE-2023-50868)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory ALAS-2024-2530.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(194863);
  script_version("1.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/04/30");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2023-50387", "CVE-2023-50868");
  script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2024-A-0103");

  script_name(english:"Amazon Linux 2 : bind (ALAS-2024-2530)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of bind installed on the remote host is prior to 9.11.4-26.P2. It is, therefore, affected by multiple
vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2530 advisory.

  - Certain DNSSEC aspects of the DNS protocol (in RFC 4033, 4034, 4035, 6840, and related RFCs) allow remote
    attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via one or more DNSSEC responses, aka the
    KeyTrap issue. One of the concerns is that, when there is a zone with many DNSKEY and RRSIG records, the
    protocol specification implies that an algorithm must evaluate all combinations of DNSKEY and RRSIG
    records. (CVE-2023-50387)

  - The Closest Encloser Proof aspect of the DNS protocol (in RFC 5155 when RFC 9276 guidance is skipped)
    allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption for SHA-1 computations) via DNSSEC
    responses in a random subdomain attack, aka the NSEC3 issue. The RFC 5155 specification implies that an
    algorithm must perform thousands of iterations of a hash function in certain situations. (CVE-2023-50868)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2024-2530.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-50387.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-50868.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update bind' to update your system.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-50387");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2024/02/13");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2024/04/24");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2024/04/30");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-chroot");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-export-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-export-libs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-libs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-libs-lite");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-license");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-lite-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-pkcs11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-pkcs11-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-pkcs11-libs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-pkcs11-utils");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-sdb");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-sdb-chroot");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-utils");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}

include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);

var alas_release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(alas_release) || !strlen(alas_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d+|-\d+)", string:alas_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "2")
{
  if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
  audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux 2", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}

if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'bind-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-chroot-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-chroot-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-chroot-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-debuginfo-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-debuginfo-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-debuginfo-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-devel-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-devel-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-devel-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-export-devel-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-export-devel-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-export-devel-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-export-libs-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-export-libs-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-export-libs-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-libs-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-libs-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-libs-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-libs-lite-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-libs-lite-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-libs-lite-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-license-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-lite-devel-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-lite-devel-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-lite-devel-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-pkcs11-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-pkcs11-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-pkcs11-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-pkcs11-devel-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-pkcs11-devel-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-pkcs11-devel-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-pkcs11-libs-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-pkcs11-libs-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-pkcs11-libs-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-pkcs11-utils-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-pkcs11-utils-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-pkcs11-utils-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-sdb-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-sdb-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-sdb-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-sdb-chroot-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-sdb-chroot-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-sdb-chroot-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-utils-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-utils-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'bind-utils-9.11.4-26.P2.amzn2.13.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'AL2', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var reference = NULL;
  var _release = NULL;
  var sp = NULL;
  var _cpu = NULL;
  var el_string = NULL;
  var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  var epoch = NULL;
  var allowmaj = NULL;
  var exists_check = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
  if (reference && _release && (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check))) {
    if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
      extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "bind / bind-chroot / bind-debuginfo / etc");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
amazonlinuxbind-pkcs11-utilsp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-pkcs11-utils
amazonlinuxbind-pkcs11-develp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-pkcs11-devel
amazonlinuxbind-export-libsp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-export-libs
amazonlinuxbind-libs-litep-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-libs-lite
amazonlinuxbind-lite-develp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-lite-devel
amazonlinuxbind-export-develp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-export-devel
amazonlinuxbind-sdb-chrootp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-sdb-chroot
amazonlinuxbind-debuginfop-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-debuginfo
amazonlinuxbind-chrootp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-chroot
amazonlinuxbind-develp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-devel
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7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7.4 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.05 Low

EPSS

Percentile

92.9%