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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : bind9 vulnerability (USN-1783-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 65763

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Matthew Horsfall discovered that Bind incorrectly handled regular expression checking. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Bind to consume an excessive amount of memory, possibly resulting in a denial of service. This issue was corrected by disabling RDATA regular expression syntax checking.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1783-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 65763

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1783-1.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/1/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns64, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns69, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns81, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/29/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/28/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2266

BID: 58736

USN: 1783-1