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Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-641)

🗓️ 20 Jan 2016 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AGType 
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Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-641). Remote host missing update for 'bind' package. APL RR data causing server exit due to INSIST failure

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.120631");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8704");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-01-20 05:22:48 +0000 (Wed, 20 Jan 2016)");
  script_version("2025-01-23T05:37:39+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-01-23 05:37:39 +0000 (Thu, 23 Jan 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.8");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2018-10-30 16:27:00 +0000 (Tue, 30 Oct 2018)");

  script_name("Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2016-641)");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
  script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/amazon_linux", "ssh/login/release");

  script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"ALAS-2016-641");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2016-641.html");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'bind' package(s) announced via the ALAS-2016-641 advisory.");

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

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Specific APL RR data could cause a server to exit due to an INSIST failure in apl_42.c when performing certain string formatting operations. (CVE-2015-8704)

CVE-2015-8705 was also issued today for bind, but the Amazon Linux AMI's version of bind is not impacted by that CVE.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'bind' package(s) on Amazon Linux.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");

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

  exit(0);
}

include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");

release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
  exit(0);

res = "";
report = "";

if(release == "AMAZON") {

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"bind", rpm:"bind~9.8.2~0.37.rc1.43.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"bind-chroot", rpm:"bind-chroot~9.8.2~0.37.rc1.43.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"bind-debuginfo", rpm:"bind-debuginfo~9.8.2~0.37.rc1.43.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"bind-devel", rpm:"bind-devel~9.8.2~0.37.rc1.43.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"bind-libs", rpm:"bind-libs~9.8.2~0.37.rc1.43.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"bind-sdb", rpm:"bind-sdb~9.8.2~0.37.rc1.43.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"bind-utils", rpm:"bind-utils~9.8.2~0.37.rc1.43.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(report != "") {
    security_message(data:report);
  } else if(__pkg_match) {
    exit(99);
  }
  exit(0);
}

exit(0);

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