RHEL 8 : unbound (RHSA-2024:2045)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 193877

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for unbound.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2045 advisory.

- unbound: NRDelegation attack leads to uncontrolled resource consumption (Non-Responsive Delegation Attack) (CVE-2022-3204)

- unbound: novel ghost domain attack that allows attackers to trigger continued resolvability of malicious domain names (CVE-2022-30698, CVE-2022-30699)

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 RHEL unbound package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:2045.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 193877

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-2045.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/25/2024

Updated: 4/25/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-30699

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:H/I:N/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-unbound, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:unbound, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:unbound-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:unbound-libs

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/25/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-30698, CVE-2022-30699, CVE-2022-3204

CWE: 613

RHSA: 2024:2045

Detections

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