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Fedora 37 : maradns (2023-cdce244fb8)

2023-05-2500:00:00
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fedora 37
maradns
dns
vulnerability
remote exploitation
denial of service
cve-2022-30256
cve-2023-31137

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-cdce244fb8 advisory.

  • An issue was discovered in MaraDNS Deadwood through 3.5.0021 that allows variant V1 of unintended domain name resolution. A revoked domain name can still be resolvable for a long time, including expired domains and taken-down malicious domains. The effects of an exploit would be widespread and highly impactful, because the exploitation conforms to de facto DNS specifications and operational practices, and overcomes current mitigation patches for Ghost domain names. (CVE-2022-30256)

  • MaraDNS is open-source software that implements the Domain Name System (DNS). In version 3.5.0024 and prior, a remotely exploitable integer underflow vulnerability in the DNS packet decompression function allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service by triggering an abnormal program termination. The vulnerability exists in the decomp_get_rddata function within the Decompress.c file. When handling a DNS packet with an Answer RR of qtype 16 (TXT record) and any qclass, if the rdlength is smaller than rdata, the result of the line Decompress.c:886 is a negative number len = rdlength - total;. This value is then passed to the decomp_append_bytes function without proper validation, causing the program to attempt to allocate a massive chunk of memory that is impossible to allocate. Consequently, the program exits with an error code of 64, causing a Denial of Service. One proposed fix for this vulnerability is to patch Decompress.c:887 by breaking if(len <= 0), which has been incorporated in version 3.5.0036 via commit bab062bde40b2ae8a91eecd522e84d8b993bab58. (CVE-2023-31137)

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 Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2023-cdce244fb8
#

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(176349);
  script_version("1.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/05/25");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2022-30256", "CVE-2023-31137");
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2023-cdce244fb8");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 37 : maradns (2023-cdce244fb8)");

  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 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the
FEDORA-2023-cdce244fb8 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in MaraDNS Deadwood through 3.5.0021 that allows variant V1 of unintended domain
    name resolution. A revoked domain name can still be resolvable for a long time, including expired domains
    and taken-down malicious domains. The effects of an exploit would be widespread and highly impactful,
    because the exploitation conforms to de facto DNS specifications and operational practices, and overcomes
    current mitigation patches for Ghost domain names. (CVE-2022-30256)

  - MaraDNS is open-source software that implements the Domain Name System (DNS). In version 3.5.0024 and
    prior, a remotely exploitable integer underflow vulnerability in the DNS packet decompression function
    allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service by triggering an abnormal program termination. The
    vulnerability exists in the `decomp_get_rddata` function within the `Decompress.c` file. When handling a
    DNS packet with an Answer RR of qtype 16 (TXT record) and any qclass, if the `rdlength` is smaller than
    `rdata`, the result of the line `Decompress.c:886` is a negative number `len = rdlength - total;`. This
    value is then passed to the `decomp_append_bytes` function without proper validation, causing the program
    to attempt to allocate a massive chunk of memory that is impossible to allocate. Consequently, the program
    exits with an error code of 64, causing a Denial of Service. One proposed fix for this vulnerability is to
    patch `Decompress.c:887` by breaking `if(len <= 0)`, which has been incorporated in version 3.5.0036 via
    commit bab062bde40b2ae8a91eecd522e84d8b993bab58. (CVE-2023-31137)

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://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-cdce244fb8");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected maradns package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N");
  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:H/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2022-30256");

  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:"2022/11/19");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/05/16");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/05/25");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:37");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:maradns");
  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) 2023 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:"^37([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Fedora 37', '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':'maradns-3.5.0036-1.fc37', 'release':'FC37', '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, 'maradns');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
fedoraprojectfedora37cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:37
fedoraprojectfedoramaradnsp-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:maradns