SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : bind (SUSE-SU-2019:1407-1)

Medium Nessus Plugin ID 125703

Synopsis

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

Description

This update for bind fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2019-6465: Fixed an issue where controls for zone transfers may not be properly applied to Dynamically Loadable Zones (bsc#1126069).

CVE-2018-5745: Fixed a denial of service vulnerability if a trust anchor rolls over to an unsupported key algorithm when using managed-keys (bsc#1126068).

CVE-2018-5743: Fixed a denial of service vulnerability which could be caused by to many simultaneous TCP connections (bsc#1133185).

CVE-2018-5740: Fixed a denial of service vulnerability in the 'deny-answer-aliases' feature (bsc#1104129).

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

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15-SP1:zypper in
-t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP1-2019-1407=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-2019-1407=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Open Buildservice Development Tools 15-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-OBS-15-SP1-2019-1407=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Open Buildservice Development Tools 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-OBS-15-2019-1407=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP1-2019-1407=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2019-1407=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104129

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1126068

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1126069

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1133185

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5740/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5743/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5745/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6465/

http://www.nessus.org/u?96c92c58

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 125703

File Name: suse_SU-2019-1407-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2019/06/04

Updated: 2019/09/10

Dependencies: 12634

Risk Information

Risk Factor: Medium

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bind, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bind-chrootenv, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bind-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bind-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bind-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bind-lwresd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bind-lwresd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bind-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bind-utils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libbind9, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libbind9-160-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdns169, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdns169-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libirs-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libirs160, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libirs160-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libisc166, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libisc166-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libisccc160, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libisccc160-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libisccfg160, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libisccfg160-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:liblwres160, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:liblwres160-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Patch Publication Date: 2019/06/03

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2019/01/16

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5740, CVE-2018-5743, CVE-2018-5745, CVE-2019-6465