Alpine: bind: security update to 9.11.4_p1-r0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 403642

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- "deny-answer-aliases" is a little-used feature intended to help recursive server operators protect end
users against DNS rebinding attacks, a potential method of circumventing the security model used by client
browsers. However, a defect in this feature makes it easy, when the feature is in use, to experience an
assertion failure in name.c. Affects BIND 9.7.0->9.8.8, 9.9.0->9.9.13, 9.10.0->9.10.8, 9.11.0->9.11.4,
9.12.0->9.12.2, 9.13.0->9.13.2. (CVE-2018-5740)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 403642

Version: Revision 1.25

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-5740

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/8/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5740

BID: 105055

IAVA: 2018-A-0255-S, 2018-A-0303-S

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