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AlmaLinux 8 : bind (ALSA-2021:4384)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 157528

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2021:4384 advisory.

 - In BIND 9.8.5 -> 9.8.8, 9.9.3 -> 9.11.29, 9.12.0 -> 9.16.13, and versions BIND 9.9.3-S1 -> 9.11.29-S1 and 9.16.8-S1 -> 9.16.13-S1 of BIND 9 Supported Preview Edition, as well as release versions 9.17.0 -> 9.17.11 of the BIND 9.17 development branch, when a vulnerable version of named receives a malformed IXFR triggering the flaw described above, the named process will terminate due to a failed assertion the next time the transferred secondary zone is refreshed. (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

https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2021-4384.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 157528

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2021-4384.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 2/9/2022

Updated: 2/14/2022

Supported Sensors: 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: p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind-chroot, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind-export-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind-export-libs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind-libs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind-libs-lite, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind-license, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind-lite-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind-pkcs11, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind-pkcs11-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind-pkcs11-libs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind-pkcs11-utils, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind-sdb, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind-sdb-chroot, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:bind-utils, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:python3-bind, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/28/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-25214

IAVA: 2021-A-0206-S