#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2024-5231.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(205435);
script_version("1.4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/09/09");
script_cve_id("CVE-2024-1737", "CVE-2024-1975", "CVE-2024-4076");
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2024-A-0442-S");
script_name(english:"Oracle Linux 9 : bind / and / bind-dyndb-ldap (ELSA-2024-5231)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the
ELSA-2024-5231 advisory.
- Minor fix of reclimit test backport (CVE-2024-1737)
- Resolve CVE-2024-1975
- Resolve CVE-2024-1737
- Resolve CVE-2024-4076
- Prevent crashing at masterformat system test (CVE-2023-6516)
- Add downstream change complementing CVE-2023-50387
- Prevent increased CPU load on large DNS messages (CVE-2023-4408)
- Prevent assertion failure when nxdomain-redirect is used with
RFC 1918 reverse zones (CVE-2023-5517)
- Prevent assertion failure if DNS64 and serve-stale is used (CVE-2023-5679)
- Specific recursive query patterns may lead to an out-of-memory
condition (CVE-2023-6516)
- Prevent increased CPU consumption in DNSSEC validator (CVE-2023-50387
CVE-2023-50868)
- Limit the amount of recursion possible in control channel (CVE-2023-3341)
- Prevent possible endless loop when refreshing stale data (CVE-2023-2911)
- Strengten cache cleaning to prevent overflowing configured limit
(CVE-2023-2828)
- Handle subtle difference between upstream and rhel (CVE-2022-3094)
- Prevent flooding with UPDATE requests (CVE-2022-3094)
- Handle RRSIG queries when server-stale is active (CVE-2022-3736)
- Fix crash when soft-quota is reached and serve-stale is active (CVE-2022-3924)
- Bound the amount of work performed for delegations (CVE-2022-2795)
- Fix possible serve-stale related crash (CVE-2022-3080)
- Fix memory leak in ECDSA verify processing (CVE-2022-38177)
- Fix memory leak in EdDSA verify processing (CVE-2022-38178)
bind-dyndb-ldap
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.
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://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2024-5231.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
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-2024-1975");
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:"2024/07/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2024/08/13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2024/08/13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-chroot");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-dnssec-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-dnssec-utils");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-dyndb-ldap");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-libs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-license");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:bind-utils");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-bind");
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:"Oracle Linux Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2024-2025 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/OracleLinux", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/local_checks_enabled");
exit(0);
}
include('rpm2.inc');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_product = get_kb_item('installed_os/local/SSH/0/product');
if (isnull(os_product) || !pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux)", string:os_product)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux');
var os_version = get_kb_item('installed_os/local/SSH/0/version');
if (isnull(os_version)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Oracle Linux');
if (! preg(pattern:"^9([^0-9]|$)", string:os_version)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux 9.x', 'Oracle Linux ' + os_version);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Oracle Linux', cpu);
var constraints = [
{
'release': '9',
'pkgs': [
{'reference':'bind-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-chroot-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-devel-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-dnssec-doc-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-dnssec-utils-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-doc-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-dyndb-ldap-11.9-10.el9_4', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'bind-libs-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-license-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-utils-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'python3-bind-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-devel-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-dnssec-doc-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-dnssec-utils-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-doc-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-dyndb-ldap-11.9-10.el9_4', 'cpu':'i686', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'bind-libs-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-license-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-utils-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'python3-bind-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'i686', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-chroot-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-devel-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-dnssec-doc-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-dnssec-utils-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-doc-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-dyndb-ldap-11.9-10.el9_4', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'bind-libs-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-license-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'bind-utils-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'},
{'reference':'python3-bind-9.16.23-18.0.1.el9_4.6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'32'}
]
}
];
var os_release = get_one_kb_item('installed_os/local/SSH/0/release');
var os_sp = get_one_kb_item('Host/*/minor_release');
var flag = 0;
var reference;
var sp;
var _cpu;
var el_string;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp;
var epoch;
var allowmaj;
var exists_check;
var cves;
foreach var constraint ( constraints ) {
# Check that the target release is equal to the affected release
if (!empty_or_null(constraint['release'])){
if (constraint['release'] != os_release) continue;
}
if (!empty_or_null(constraint['sp'])){
if (constraint['sp'] != os_sp) continue;
}
foreach var pkg ( constraint['pkgs'] ) {
reference = NULL;
sp = NULL;
_cpu = NULL;
el_string = NULL;
rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
epoch = NULL;
allowmaj = NULL;
exists_check = NULL;
cves = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['reference'])) reference = pkg['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['sp'])) sp = pkg['sp'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['cpu'])) _cpu = pkg['cpu'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['el_string'])) el_string = pkg['el_string'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['epoch'])) epoch = pkg['epoch'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = pkg['allowmaj'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['exists_check'])) exists_check = pkg['exists_check'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['cves'])) cves = pkg['cves'];
if (reference &&
## (no known rpm to check OR known rpm_exists)
(!exists_check || rpm_exists(rpm:exists_check)) &&
rpm_check(sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj, cves:cves)) 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-devel / etc');
}
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