EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.3 : bind (EulerOS-SA-2019-1161)

high Nessus Plugin ID 123847

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Synopsis

The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the bind packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

- A denial of service flaw was discovered in bind versions that include the 'deny-answer-aliases' feature. This flaw may allow a remote attacker to trigger an INSIST assert in named leading to termination of the process and a denial of service condition.i1/4^CVE-2018-5740i1/4%0

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

Solution

Update the affected bind package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?cd0d04cd

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 123847

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-1161.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Published: 4/9/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: 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 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:huawei:euleros:bind-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:bind-libs-lite, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:bind-license, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:bind-utils, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.5.3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/2/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5740