SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : bind (SUSE-SU-2025:01787-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 237601

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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 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:01787-1 advisory.

Update to version 9.20.9.

- Security issues fixed:

* CVE-2025-40775: denial-of-service due to assertion failure caused by the processing of a NS message with an invalid TSIG (bsc#1243361).
* CVE-2024-12705: CPU and memory exhaustion due to DNS-over-HTTPS issues that arise under heavy query load (bsc#1236597).
* CVE-2024-11187: CPU exhaustion when processing queries that lead to responses containing several records in the Additional data section (bsc#1236596).

- Changelog:

- Feature changes:
* Performance optimization for NSEC3 lookups introduced in BIND 9.20.2 was reverted to avoid risks associated with a complex code change.
* The configuration clauses parental-agents and primaries are renamed to remote-servers.
* Add none parameter to query-source and query-source-v6 to disable IPv4 or IPv6 upstream queries but allow listening to queries from clients on IPv4 or IPv6.
* dnssec-ksr now supports KSK rollovers.
* Print RFC 7314: EXPIRE option in transfer summary.
* Emit more helpful log messages for exceeding max-records-per-type.
* Harden key management when key files have become unavailable.

- New Features:
* Add support for EDE 20 (Not Authoritative).
* Add support for EDE 7 and EDE 8.
* `dig` can now display the received BADVERS message during negotiation.
* Add an `rndc` command to reset some statistics counters.
* Implement the min-transfer-rate-in configuration option.
* Add HTTPS record query to host command line tool.
* Implement sig0key-checks-limit and sig0message-checks-limit.
* Adds support for EDE code 1 and 2.
* Add an rndc command to toggle jemalloc profiling.
* Add support for multiple extended DNS errors.
* Print the expiration time of stale records.
* Add Extended DNS Error Code 22 - No Reachable Authority.
* Add a new option to configure the maximum number of outgoing queries per client request.
* Use the Server Name Indication (SNI) extension for all outgoing TLS connections.
* Update built-in bind.keys file with the new 2025 IANA root key.
* Add an initial-ds entry to bind.keys for the new root key, ID 38696, which is scheduled for publication in January 2025.

- Bug Fixes:
* Restore NSEC3 closest-encloser lookup improvements.
* Stop caching lack of EDNS support.
* Fix resolver statistics counters for timed-out responses.
* Nested DNS validation could cause an assertion failure.
* Wait for memory reclamation to finish in `named-checkconf`.
* Ensure `max-clients-per-query` is at least `clients-per-query`.
* Fix write after free in validator code.
* Don't enforce NOAUTH/NOCONF flags in DNSKEYs.
* Fix several small DNSSEC timing issues.
* Fix inconsistency in CNAME/DNAME handling during resolution.
* Fix dual-stack-servers configuration option.
* Fix a data race causing a permanent active client increase.
* Fix deferred validation of unsigned DS and DNSKEY records.
* Fix RPZ race condition during a reconfiguration.
* 'CNAME and other data check' not applied to all types.
* Relax private DNSKEY and RRSIG constraints.
* Remove NSEC/DS/NSEC3 RRSIG check from dns_message_parse().
* Fix TTL issue with ANY queries processed through RPZ 'passthru';.
* dnssec-signzone needs to check for a NULL key when setting offline.
* Fix a bug in the statistics channel when querying zone transfer information.
* Fix assertion failure when dumping recursing clients.
* Dump the active resolver fetches from dns_resolver_dumpfetches().
* Recently expired records could be returned with a timestamp in future.
* YAML string not terminated in negative response in delv.
* Fix a bug in dnssec-signzone related to keys being offline.
* Apply the memory limit only to ADB database items.
* Avoid unnecessary locking in the zone/cache database.
* Fix reporting of Extended DNS Error 22 (No Reachable Authority).
* Fix nsupdate hang when processing a large update.
* Fix possible assertion failure when reloading server while processing update policy rules.
* Preserve cache across reconfig when using attach-cache.
* Resolve the spurious drops in performance due to glue cache.
* Fix dnssec-signzone signing non-DNSKEY RRsets with revoked keys.
* Fix improper handling of unknown directives in resolv.conf.
* Fix response policy zones and catalog zones with an $INCLUDE statement defined.
* Use TLS for notifies if configured to do so.
* Notifies configured to use TLS will now be sent over TLS, instead of plain text UDP or TCP. Also, failing to load the TLS configuration for notify now results in an error.'
* {&dns} is as valid as {?dns} in a SVCB's dohpath.
* dig failed to parse a valid SVCB record with a dohpath URI template containing a {&dns}, like 'dohpath=/some/path?key=value{&dns}';.
* Fix NSEC3 closest encloser lookup for names with empty non-terminals.
* A previous performance optimization for finding the NSEC3 closest encloser when generating authoritative responses could cause servers to return incorrect NSEC3 records in some cases. This has been fixed.
* recursive-clients statement with value 0 triggered an assertion failure.
* BIND 9.20.0 broke recursive-clients 0;. This has now been fixed.
* Parsing of hostnames in rndc.conf was broken.
* When DSCP support was removed, parsing of hostnames in rndc.conf was accidentally broken, resulting in an assertion failure. This has been fixed.
* `dig` options of the form [+-]option=<value> failed to display the value on the printed command line. This has been fixed.
* Provide more visibility into TLS configuration errors by logging SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file() and SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file() errors individually.
* Fix a race condition when canceling ADB find which could cause an assertion failure.
* SERVFAIL cache memory cleaning is now more aggressive; it no longer consumes a lot of memory if the server encounters many SERVFAILs at once.
* Fix trying the next primary XoT server when the previous one was marked as unreachable.
* In some cases named failed to try the next primary server in the primaries list when the previous one was marked as unreachable. This has been fixed.

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 and / or bind-utils packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 237601

File Name: suse_SU-2025-01787-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/31/2025

Updated: 5/31/2025

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

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-2025-40775

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

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: 5/30/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/29/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-11187, CVE-2024-12705, CVE-2025-40775

IAVA: 2025-A-0071-S, 2025-A-0375

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:01787-1

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