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HistoryJan 09, 2015 - 12:00 a.m.

Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2015-465)

2015-01-0900:00:00
This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
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CVSS2

7.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

EPSS

0.835

Percentile

98.5%

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND followed DNS delegations. A remote attacker could use a specially crafted zone containing a large number of referrals which, when looked up and processed, would cause named to use excessive amounts of memory or crash. (CVE-2014-8500)

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2015-465.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(80416);
  script_version("1.7");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/04/18 15:09:35");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2014-8500");
  script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2015-465");
  script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2014:1984");

  script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2015-465)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND followed DNS
delegations. A remote attacker could use a specially crafted zone
containing a large number of referrals which, when looked up and
processed, would cause named to use excessive amounts of memory or
crash. (CVE-2014-8500)"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2015-465.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Run 'yum update bind' to update your system."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-chroot");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-libs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-sdb");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-utils");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/01/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/01/09");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);

release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(release) || !strlen(release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "A")
{
  if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
  audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux AMI", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}

if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"bind-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.35.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.35.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.35.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"bind-devel-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.35.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"bind-libs-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.35.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.35.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"bind-utils-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.35.amzn1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "bind / bind-chroot / bind-debuginfo / bind-devel / bind-libs / etc");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
amazonlinuxbindp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind
amazonlinuxbind-chrootp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-chroot
amazonlinuxbind-debuginfop-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-debuginfo
amazonlinuxbind-develp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-devel
amazonlinuxbind-libsp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-libs
amazonlinuxbind-sdbp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-sdb
amazonlinuxbind-utilsp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-utils
amazonlinuxcpe:/o:amazon:linux

CVSS2

7.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

EPSS

0.835

Percentile

98.5%