Jared Mauch reported a denial of service flaw in the way BIND, a DNS server, handled queries for NSEC3-signed zones. A remote attacker could use this flaw against an authoritative name server that served NCES3-signed zones by sending a specially crafted query, which, when processed, would cause named to crash.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-3023. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(77637);
script_version("1.11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2014-0591");
script_bugtraq_id(64801);
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"3023");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-3023-1 : bind9 - security update");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Jared Mauch reported a denial of service flaw in the way BIND, a DNS
server, handled queries for NSEC3-signed zones. A remote attacker
could use this flaw against an authoritative name server that served
NCES3-signed zones by sending a specially crafted query, which, when
processed, would cause named to crash."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=735190"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/bind9"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3023"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the bind9 packages.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/09/11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/09/12");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"bind9", reference:"1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"bind9-doc", reference:"1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"bind9-host", reference:"1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"bind9utils", reference:"1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"dnsutils", reference:"1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"host", reference:"1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libbind-dev", reference:"1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libbind9-80", reference:"1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libdns88", reference:"1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libisc84", reference:"1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libisccc80", reference:"1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libisccfg82", reference:"1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"liblwres80", reference:"1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"lwresd", reference:"1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_note(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | bind9 | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9 |
debian | debian_linux | 7.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0 |