Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 16.10 : bind9 vulnerabilities (USN-3172-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 96483
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VPR Score: 4.4
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.Description
It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain malformed responses to an ANY query. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service.(CVE-2016-9131)
It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain malformed responses to an ANY query. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2016-9147)
It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain malformed DS record responses. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10.
(CVE-2016-9444).
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected bind9 package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 96483
File Name: ubuntu_USN-3172-1.nasl
Version: 3.8
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 1/13/2017
Updated: 9/18/2019
Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl
Risk Information
Risk Factor: Medium
VPR Score: 4.4
CVSS v2.0
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.7
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C
CVSS v3.0
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: E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.10
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 1/12/2017
Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/12/2017
Reference Information
USN: 3172-1