The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by a 'Non-Responsive Delegation Attack' vulnerability. The vulnerability can cause denial of service due to high CPU usage and resource depletion in DNS resolving software
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 118 |
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Oracle linux | unbound security update | 15 May 202300:00 | β | oraclelinux |
Oracle linux | unbound security and bug fix update | 24 May 202300:00 | β | oraclelinux |
Tenable Nessus | CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: unbound (CVE-2022-3204) | 28 Mar 202300:00 | β | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | CentOS 8 : unbound (CESA-2023:2771) | 16 May 202300:00 | β | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.0 : unbound (EulerOS-SA-2023-2094) | 7 Jun 202300:00 | β | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | CentOS 9 : unbound-1.16.2-3.el9 | 29 Feb 202400:00 | β | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Oracle Linux 8 : unbound (ELSA-2023-2771) | 24 May 202300:00 | β | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.0 : unbound (EulerOS-SA-2023-1177) | 11 Jan 202300:00 | β | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : unbound (EulerOS-SA-2023-1024) | 5 Jan 202300:00 | β | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | RHEL 9 : unbound (RHSA-2023:2370) | 12 May 202300:00 | β | nessus |
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
##
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2022-164cf7837e
#
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(169108);
script_version("1.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2022/12/22");
script_cve_id("CVE-2022-3204");
script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2022-164cf7837e");
script_name(english:"Fedora 36 : unbound (2022-164cf7837e)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the
FEDORA-2022-164cf7837e advisory.
- A vulnerability named 'Non-Responsive Delegation Attack' (NRDelegation Attack) has been discovered in
various DNS resolving software. The NRDelegation Attack works by having a malicious delegation with a
considerable number of non responsive nameservers. The attack starts by querying a resolver for a record
that relies on those unresponsive nameservers. The attack can cause a resolver to spend a lot of
time/resources resolving records under a malicious delegation point where a considerable number of
unresponsive NS records reside. It can trigger high CPU usage in some resolver implementations that
continually look in the cache for resolved NS records in that delegation. This can lead to degraded
performance and eventually denial of service in orchestrated attacks. Unbound does not suffer from high
CPU usage, but resources are still needed for resolving the malicious delegation. Unbound will keep trying
to resolve the record until hard limits are reached. Based on the nature of the attack and the replies,
different limits could be reached. From version 1.16.3 on, Unbound introduces fixes for better performance
when under load, by cutting opportunistic queries for nameserver discovery and DNSKEY prefetching and
limiting the number of times a delegation point can issue a cache lookup for missing records.
(CVE-2022-3204)
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-164cf7837e");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected unbound package.");
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-2022-3204");
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:"2022/09/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2022/09/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2022/12/22");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:36");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:unbound");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2022 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include('rpm.inc');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || 'Fedora' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Fedora');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Fedora');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^36([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Fedora 36', 'Fedora ' + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Fedora', cpu);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'unbound-1.16.3-1.fc36', 'release':'FC36', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach 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;
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 (reference && _release) {
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, 'unbound');
}
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