Debian DLA-285-1 : bind9 security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 85052

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Jonathan Foote discovered that the BIND DNS server does not properly handle TKEY queries. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to mount a denial of service via a specially crafted query triggering an assertion failure and causing BIND to exit.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/07/msg00023.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/bind9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 85052

File Name: debian_DLA-285.nasl

Version: 2.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/29/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9-host, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9utils, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dnsutils, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:host, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libbind-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libbind9-60, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdns69, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libisc62, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libisccc60, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libisccfg62, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:liblwres60, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lwresd, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/28/2015

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5477