ISC BIND DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2018-5734) - Linux

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

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.146634");
  script_version("2021-09-06T14:01:33+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2021-09-06 14:01:33 +0000 (Mon, 06 Sep 2021)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2021-09-06 09:48:22 +0000 (Mon, 06 Sep 2021)");
  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:3.0/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:"2019-10-09 23:41:00 +0000 (Wed, 09 Oct 2019)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-5734");

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

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

  script_name("ISC BIND DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2018-5734) - Linux");

  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", "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:"While handling a particular type of malformed packet, BIND
  erroneously selects a SERVFAIL rcode instead of a FORMERR rcode. If the receiving view has the
  SERVFAIL cache feature enabled, this can trigger an assertion failure in badcache.c when the
  request doesn't contain all of the expected information.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Servers running the affected versions are vulnerable if they
  allow recursion, unless the SERVFAIL cache is disabled for the receiving view.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"BIND 9.10.5-S1 through 9.10.5-S4, 9.10.6-S1 and 9.10.6-S2.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 9.10.6-S3 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01562");

  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\.10\.[0-9]+s[0-9]") {
  if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "9.10.5s1", test_version2: "9.10.5s4") ||
      version_is_equal(version: version, test_version: "9.10.6s1") ||
      version_is_equal(version: version, test_version: "9.10.6s2")) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "9.10.6-S3", install_path: location);
    security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: proto);
    exit(0);
  }
}

exit(99);