A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND processed certain records with malformed class attributes. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a query to request a cached record with a malformed class attribute that would cause named functioning as an authoritative or recursive server to crash. (CVE-2015-8000)
Note: This issue affects authoritative servers as well as recursive servers, however authoritative servers are at limited risk if they perform authentication when making recursive queries to resolve addresses for servers listed in NS RRSETs.
After installing the update, the BIND daemon (named) will be restarted automatically.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text is (C) Scientific Linux.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(87460);
script_version("2.9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/14");
script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8000");
script_name(english:"Scientific Linux Security Update : bind on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20151216)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:
"The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security
updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND processed certain
records with malformed class attributes. A remote attacker could use
this flaw to send a query to request a cached record with a malformed
class attribute that would cause named functioning as an authoritative
or recursive server to crash. (CVE-2015-8000)
Note: This issue affects authoritative servers as well as recursive
servers, however authoritative servers are at limited risk if they
perform authentication when making recursive queries to resolve
addresses for servers listed in NS RRSETs.
After installing the update, the BIND daemon (named) will be restarted
automatically."
);
# https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1512&L=scientific-linux-errata&F=&S=&P=2724
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?2c685260"
);
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:P");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:bind");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:bind-chroot");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:bind-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:bind-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:bind-libbind-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:bind-libs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:bind-sdb");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:bind-utils");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:caching-nameserver");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2015/12/16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/12/16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/12/17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Scientific Linux Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Scientific Linux " >!< release) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "running Scientific Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Scientific Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Scientific Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^5([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Scientific Linux 5.x", "Scientific Linux " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu >!< "x86_64" && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Scientific Linux", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"bind-9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"bind-chroot-9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"bind-debuginfo-9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"bind-devel-9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"bind-libbind-devel-9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"bind-libs-9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"bind-sdb-9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"bind-utils-9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"caching-nameserver-9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.5")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "bind / bind-chroot / bind-debuginfo / bind-devel / etc");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
fermilab | scientific_linux | bind | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:bind |
fermilab | scientific_linux | bind-chroot | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:bind-chroot |
fermilab | scientific_linux | bind-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:bind-debuginfo |
fermilab | scientific_linux | bind-devel | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:bind-devel |
fermilab | scientific_linux | bind-libbind-devel | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:bind-libbind-devel |
fermilab | scientific_linux | bind-libs | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:bind-libs |
fermilab | scientific_linux | bind-sdb | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:bind-sdb |
fermilab | scientific_linux | bind-utils | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:bind-utils |
fermilab | scientific_linux | caching-nameserver | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:caching-nameserver |
fermilab | scientific_linux | x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux |