Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Bind vulnerabilities (USN-3172-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 96483

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain malformed responses to an ANY query. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2016-9131)

It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain malformed responses to an ANY query. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2016-9147)

It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain malformed DS record responses. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10.
(CVE-2016-9444).

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3172-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 96483

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3172-1.nasl

Version: 3.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/13/2017

Updated: 10/20/2023

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: 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-2016-9444

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

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9-host, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dnsutils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:host, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbind-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbind-export-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbind9-140, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbind9-90, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns-export162, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns-export162-udeb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns100, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns162, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libirs-export141, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libirs-export141-udeb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libirs141, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisc-export160, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisc-export160-udeb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisc160, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisc95, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccc-export140, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccc-export140-udeb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccc140, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccc90, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccfg-export140, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccfg-export140-udeb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccfg140, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccfg90, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblwres141, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblwres90, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lwresd, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/12/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9131, CVE-2016-9147, CVE-2016-9444

USN: 3172-1