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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Unbound vulnerabilities (USN-4374-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 136943

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Synopsis

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

Description

Lior Shafir, Yehuda Afek, and Anat Bremler-Barr discovered that Unbound incorrectly handled certain queries. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform an amplification attack directed at a target. (CVE-2020-12662)

It was discovered that Unbound incorrectly handled certain malformed answers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Unbound to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-12663).

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-4374-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 136943

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4374-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/28/2020

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-2020-12663

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:libunbound2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libunbound8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-unbound, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-unbound, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:unbound, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:unbound-anchor, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:unbound-host, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libunbound-dev

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/27/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/19/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12662, CVE-2020-12663

USN: 4374-1