ISC BIND DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2019-6467) - Linux

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

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.142322");
  script_version("2021-08-30T11:01:18+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2021-08-30 11:01:18 +0000 (Mon, 30 Aug 2021)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2019-04-30 06:46:52 +0000 (Tue, 30 Apr 2019)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  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:"2019-12-18 18:15:00 +0000 (Wed, 18 Dec 2019)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-6467");

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

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

  script_name("ISC BIND DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2019-6467) - Linux");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
  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 vulnerability.");

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

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"A programming error in the nxdomain-redirect feature can cause an assertion
  failure in query.c if the alternate namespace used by nxdomain-redirect is a descendant of a zone that is served
  locally.

  The most likely scenario where this might occur is if the server, in addition to performing NXDOMAIN redirection
  for recursive clients, is also serving a local copy of the root zone or using mirroring to provide the root zone,
  although other configurations are also possible.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An attacker who can deliberately trigger the condition on a server with a
  vulnerable configuration can cause BIND to exit, denying service to other clients.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"BIND 9.12.0 to 9.12.4 and 9.14.0. Also affects all releases in the 9.13
  development branch.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 9.12.4-P1, 9.14.1 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2019-6467");

  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\.")
  exit(99);

if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "9.12.0", test_version2: "9.12.4")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "9.12.4-P1", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: proto);
  exit(0);
}

if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "9.13.0", test_version2: "9.14.0")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "9.14.1", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: proto);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);