CentOS Update for bind97 CESA-2016:2094 centos5
🗓️ 22 Oct 2016 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AGType
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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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882580");
script_version("2026-04-24T06:23:04+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2026-04-24 06:23:04 +0000 (Fri, 24 Apr 2026)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-10-22 06:03:06 +0200 (Sat, 22 Oct 2016)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-2848");
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:"2018-09-27 10:29:00 +0000 (Thu, 27 Sep 2018)");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_name("CentOS Update for bind97 CESA-2016:2094 centos5");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Check the version of bind97");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND)
is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. BIND includes
a DNS server (named) a resolver library (routines for applications to use when
interfacing with DNS) and tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating
correctly.
Security Fix(es):
* A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND handled packets with
malformed options. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named exit
unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS packet.
(CVE-2016-2848)");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"bind97 on CentOS 5");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated packages.");
script_xref(name:"CESA", value:"2016:2094");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2016-October/022131.html");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
script_family("CentOS Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/centos", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=CentOS5");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
if(release == "CentOS5")
{
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"bind97", rpm:"bind97~9.7.0~21.P2.el5_11.8", rls:"CentOS5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"bind97-chroot", rpm:"bind97-chroot~9.7.0~21.P2.el5_11.8", rls:"CentOS5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"bind97-devel", rpm:"bind97-devel~9.7.0~21.P2.el5_11.8", rls:"CentOS5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"bind97-libs", rpm:"bind97-libs~9.7.0~21.P2.el5_11.8", rls:"CentOS5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"bind97-utils", rpm:"bind97-utils~9.7.0~21.P2.el5_11.8", rls:"CentOS5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if (__pkg_match) exit(99);
exit(0);
}
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