SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : bind (SUSE-SU-2023:0341-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 171411

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0341-1 advisory.

- Updated to version 9.16.37 (jsc#SLE-24600):
- CVE-2022-3094: Fixed an issue where a message flood could exhaust all available memory (bsc#1207471).
- CVE-2022-3736: Fixed a potential crash upon receiving an RRSIG in configurations with stale cache and stale answers enabled and stale-answer-client-timeout set to a positive value (bsc#1207473).
- CVE-2022-3924: Fixed a potential crash upon reaching the recursive-clients soft quota in configurations with stale answers enabled and stale-answer-client-timeout set to a positive value (bsc#1207475).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected bind, bind-doc, bind-utils and / or python3-bind packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 171411

File Name: suse_SU-2023-0341-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/14/2023

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-3924

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:novell:suse_linux:python3-bind, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bind-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bind, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bind-doc, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/25/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3094, CVE-2022-3736, CVE-2022-3924

IAVA: 2023-A-0058-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:0341-1

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