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CentOS 7 : bind (CESA-2021:3325)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 152973

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2021:3325 advisory.

 - bind: Broken inbound incremental zone update (IXFR) can cause named to terminate unexpectedly (CVE-2021-25214)

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?8337a932

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/617.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 152973

File Name: centos_RHSA-2021-3325.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/2/2021

Updated: 11/9/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-25214

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, 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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/1/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/28/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-25214

CWE: 617

IAVA: 2021-A-0206-S

RHSA: 2021:3325