CentOS 7 : bind (CESA-2020:5011)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 143050
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Synopsis

The remote CentOS Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2020:5011 advisory.

 - bind: truncated TSIG response can lead to an assertion failure (CVE-2020-8622)

 - bind: remotely triggerable assertion failure in pk11.c (CVE-2020-8623)

 - bind: incorrect enforcement of update-policy rules of type subdomain (CVE-2020-8624)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?66bca8ef

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 143050

File Name: centos_RHSA-2020-5011.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/18/2020

Updated: 11/30/2020

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8624

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-chroot, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-export-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-export-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-libs-lite, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-license, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-lite-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-pkcs11, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-pkcs11-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-pkcs11-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-pkcs11-utils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-sdb, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-sdb-chroot, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:bind-utils, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/18/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/20/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8622, CVE-2020-8623, CVE-2020-8624

RHSA: 2020:5011

CWE: 400