ISC BIND DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2023-2911) - Linux

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

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

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.149836");
  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:"2023-06-22 04:33:48 +0000 (Thu, 22 Jun 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:"2023-06-21 21:15:00 +0000 (Wed, 21 Jun 2023)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2023-2911");

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

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

  script_name("ISC BIND DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2023-2911) - 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:"If the recursive-clients quota is reached on a BIND 9 resolver
  configured with both stale-answer-enable yes, and stale-answer-client-timeout 0, a sequence of
  serve-stale-related lookups could cause named to loop and terminate unexpectedly due to a stack
  overflow.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"By sending specific queries to the resolver, an attacker can
  cause named to terminate unexpectedly.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"ISC BIND versions 9.16.33 through 9.16.41, 9.18.7 through
  9.18.15, 9.16.33-S1 through 9.16.41-S1 and 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.15-S1.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 9.16.42, 9.18.16, 9.16.42-S1, 9.18.16-S1 or
  later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2023-2911");

  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: "9.16.33s1", test_version2: "9.16.41s1")) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "9.16.42-S1", install_path: location);
    security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: proto);
    exit(0);
  }

  if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "9.18.11s1", test_version2: "9.18.15s1")) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "9.18.16-S1", install_path: location);
    security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: proto);
    exit(0);
  }
} else {
  if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "9.16.33", test_version2: "9.16.41")) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "9.16.42", install_path: location);
    security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: proto);
    exit(0);
  }

  if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "9.18.7", test_version2: "9.18.15")) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "9.18.16", install_path: location);
    security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: proto);
    exit(0);
  }
}

exit(99);