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RHEL 9 : aardvark-dns (RHSA-2025:7094)

high Nessus Plugin ID 235831

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for aardvark-dns.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:7094 advisory.

 Authoritative DNS server for A/AAAA container records Forwards other request to configured resolvers.
 Read more about configuration in `src/backend/mod.rs`.

 Security Fix(es):

 * containers/aardvark-dns: TCP Query Handling Flaw in Aardvark-dns Leading to Denial of Service (CVE-2024-8418)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

 Additional Changes:

 For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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 RHEL aardvark-dns package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:7094.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a7e51e86

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2309683

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-57695

http://www.nessus.org/u?5599bf5a

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7094

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 235831

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-7094.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/13/2025

Updated: 5/13/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-8418

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:aardvark-dns, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-8418

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2025:7094