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ISC BIND DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2023-4236) - Linux

🗓️ 20 Sep 2023 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2023 Greenbone AGType 
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ISC BIND DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2023-4236) - Linux. A flaw in DNS-over-TLS handling may cause denial of service. Update to versions 9.18.19 or later

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:isc:bind";

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.104925");
  script_version("2023-10-13T05:06:10+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-10-13 05:06:10 +0000 (Fri, 13 Oct 2023)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2023-09-20 13:23:30 +0000 (Wed, 20 Sep 2023)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.8");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2023-09-20 15:15:00 +0000 (Wed, 20 Sep 2023)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2023-4236");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_name("ISC BIND DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2023-4236) - Linux");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2023 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Denial of Service");
  script_dependencies("gb_isc_bind_consolidation.nasl", "os_detection.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("isc/bind/detected", "Host/runs_unixoide");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"ISC BIND is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"A flaw in the networking code handling DNS-over-TLS queries may
  cause named to terminate unexpectedly due to an assertion failure. This happens when internal data
  structures are incorrectly reused under significant DNS-over-TLS query load.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"A named instance vulnerable to this flaw may terminate
  unexpectedly when subjected to significant DNS-over-TLS query load.

  This flaw does not affect DNS-over-HTTPS code, as that uses a different TLS implementation.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"ISC BIND versions 9.18.0 through 9.18.18 and 9.18.11-S1 through
  9.18.18-S1.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 9.18.19, 9.18.19-S1 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2023-4236");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
  exit(0);

if (!infos = get_app_full(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
  exit(0);

version = infos["version"];
proto = infos["proto"];
location = infos["location"];

if (version =~ "^9\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+s[0-9]") {
  if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "9.18.11s1", test_version2: "9.18.18s1")) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "9.18.19-S1", install_path: location);
    security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: proto);
    exit(0);
  }
} else {
  if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "9.18.0", test_version2: "9.18.18")) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "9.18.19", install_path: location);
    security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: proto);
    exit(0);
  }
}

exit(99);

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13 Oct 2023 00:00Current
7.4High risk
Vulners AI Score7.4
CVSS 3.17.5
EPSS0.02168
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