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HistoryDec 10, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Bind vulnerability (USN-2437-1)

2014-12-1000:00:00
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2014-2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
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28

7.8 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

0.877 High

EPSS

Percentile

98.7%

Florian Maury discovered that Bind incorrectly handled delegation. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to consume resources and crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2437-1. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See 
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered 
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(79854);
  script_version("1.14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/20");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2014-8500");
  script_bugtraq_id(71590);
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"2437-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Bind vulnerability (USN-2437-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Florian Maury discovered that Bind incorrectly handled delegation. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to consume
resources and crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2437-1");
  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-2014-8500");

  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:"2014/12/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/12/09");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/12/10");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9-host");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9utils");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dnsutils");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:host");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbind-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbind9-90");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns100");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisc95");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccc90");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccfg90");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblwres90");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lwresd");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2014-2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}

include('debian_package.inc');

if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled') ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/Ubuntu/release');
if ( isnull(os_release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu');
os_release = chomp(os_release);
if (! ('14.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 14.04', 'Ubuntu ' + os_release);
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/Debian/dpkg-l') ) 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, 'Ubuntu', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'bind9', 'pkgver': '1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'bind9-host', 'pkgver': '1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'bind9utils', 'pkgver': '1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'dnsutils', 'pkgver': '1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'host', 'pkgver': '1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libbind-dev', 'pkgver': '1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libbind9-90', 'pkgver': '1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libdns100', 'pkgver': '1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libisc95', 'pkgver': '1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libisccc90', 'pkgver': '1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libisccfg90', 'pkgver': '1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'liblwres90', 'pkgver': '1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'lwresd', 'pkgver': '1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.1'}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var osver = NULL;
  var pkgname = NULL;
  var pkgver = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['osver'])) osver = package_array['osver'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgname'])) pkgname = package_array['pkgname'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgver'])) pkgver = package_array['pkgver'];
  if (osver && pkgname && pkgver) {
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:osver, pkgname:pkgname, pkgver:pkgver)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
    extra      : ubuntu_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'bind9 / bind9-host / bind9utils / dnsutils / host / libbind-dev / etc');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
canonicalubuntu_linuxbind9p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9
canonicalubuntu_linuxbind9-hostp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9-host
canonicalubuntu_linuxbind9utilsp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9utils
canonicalubuntu_linuxdnsutilsp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dnsutils
canonicalubuntu_linuxhostp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:host
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibbind-devp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbind-dev
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibbind9-90p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbind9-90
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibdns100p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns100
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibisc95p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisc95
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibisccc90p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccc90
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7.8 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

0.877 High

EPSS

Percentile

98.7%