6.8 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
8.4 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.834 High
EPSS
Percentile
98.4%
ISC BIND is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
# Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
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#
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#
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# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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#
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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CPE = "cpe:/a:isc:bind";
if (description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.117784");
script_version("2021-11-18T03:03:46+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2021-11-18 03:03:46 +0000 (Thu, 18 Nov 2021)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2021-11-17 16:21:49 +0000 (Wed, 17 Nov 2021)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2017-07-01 01:29:00 +0000 (Sat, 01 Jul 2017)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-2088");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable"); # nb: Only affected if DNS cookie support is enabled during build time
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("ISC BIND DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2016-2088)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_isc_bind_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("isc/bind/detected");
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:"BIND 9.10 has preliminary support for DNS cookies (or source
identity tokens), a proposed mechanism designed to allow lightweight transaction security between
a querying party and a nameserver. An error in the BIND code implementing support for this
optional feature permits a deliberately misconstructed packet containing multiple cookie options
to cause named to terminate with an INSIST assertion failure in resolver.c if DNS cookie support
is enabled in the server. Only servers with DNS cookie support enabled at build time can be
affected by this defect. In servers which do not have DNS cookie support selected, any cookies
encountered will be ignored as unknown option types.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Servers which are built with DNS cookie support enabled are
vulnerable to denial of service if an attacker can cause them to receive and process a response
that contains multiple cookie options.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"ISC BIND version 9.10.x through 9.10.3-P3.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 9.10.3-P4 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01351");
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_in_range(version: version, test_version: "9.10.0", test_version2: "9.10.3p3")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "9.10.3-P4", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: proto);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
6.8 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
8.4 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.834 High
EPSS
Percentile
98.4%