CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
51.8%
The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5439 advisory.
Every named
instance configured to run as a recursive resolver maintains a cache database holding the responses to the queries it has recently sent to authoritative servers. The size limit for that cache database can be configured using the max-cache-size
statement in the configuration file; it defaults to 90% of the total amount of memory available on the host. When the size of the cache reaches 7/8 of the configured limit, a cache-cleaning algorithm starts to remove expired and/or least-recently used RRsets from the cache, to keep memory use below the configured limit. It has been discovered that the effectiveness of the cache-cleaning algorithm used in named
can be severely diminished by querying the resolver for specific RRsets in a certain order, effectively allowing the configured max-cache-size
limit to be significantly exceeded. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.11.0 through 9.16.41, 9.18.0 through 9.18.15, 9.19.0 through 9.19.13, 9.11.3-S1 through 9.16.41-S1, and 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.15-S1.
(CVE-2023-2828)
If the recursive-clients
quota is reached on a BIND 9 resolver configured with both stale-answer-enable yes;
and stale-answer-client-timeout 0;
, a sequence of serve-stale-related lookups could cause named
to loop and terminate unexpectedly due to a stack overflow. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.16.33 through 9.16.41, 9.18.7 through 9.18.15, 9.16.33-S1 through 9.16.41-S1, and 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.15-S1.
(CVE-2023-2911)
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
#
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory dsa-5439. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(177627);
script_version("1.2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/09/21");
script_cve_id("CVE-2023-2828", "CVE-2023-2911");
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2023-A-0320-S");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-5439-1 : bind9 - security update");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Debian host is missing one or more security-related updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the
dsa-5439 advisory.
- Every `named` instance configured to run as a recursive resolver maintains a cache database holding the
responses to the queries it has recently sent to authoritative servers. The size limit for that cache
database can be configured using the `max-cache-size` statement in the configuration file; it defaults to
90% of the total amount of memory available on the host. When the size of the cache reaches 7/8 of the
configured limit, a cache-cleaning algorithm starts to remove expired and/or least-recently used RRsets
from the cache, to keep memory use below the configured limit. It has been discovered that the
effectiveness of the cache-cleaning algorithm used in `named` can be severely diminished by querying the
resolver for specific RRsets in a certain order, effectively allowing the configured `max-cache-size`
limit to be significantly exceeded. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.11.0 through 9.16.41, 9.18.0
through 9.18.15, 9.19.0 through 9.19.13, 9.11.3-S1 through 9.16.41-S1, and 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.15-S1.
(CVE-2023-2828)
- If the `recursive-clients` quota is reached on a BIND 9 resolver configured with both `stale-answer-enable
yes;` and `stale-answer-client-timeout 0;`, a sequence of serve-stale-related lookups could cause `named`
to loop and terminate unexpectedly due to a stack overflow. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.16.33
through 9.16.41, 9.18.7 through 9.18.15, 9.16.33-S1 through 9.16.41-S1, and 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.15-S1.
(CVE-2023-2911)
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/bind9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5439");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-2828");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-2911");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/bind9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/bookworm/bind9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade the bind9 packages.
For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in version 1");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-2911");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2023/06/21");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/06/25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/06/26");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9-dnsutils");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9-host");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9-libs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9-utils");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9utils");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dnsutils");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include('debian_package.inc');
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var debian_release = get_kb_item('Host/Debian/release');
if ( isnull(debian_release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Debian');
debian_release = chomp(debian_release);
if (! preg(pattern:"^(11)\.[0-9]+|^(12)\.[0-9]+", string:debian_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Debian 11.0 / 12.0', 'Debian ' + debian_release);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Debian', cpu);
var pkgs = [
{'release': '11.0', 'prefix': 'bind9', 'reference': '1:9.16.42-1~deb11u1'},
{'release': '11.0', 'prefix': 'bind9-dev', 'reference': '1:9.16.42-1~deb11u1'},
{'release': '11.0', 'prefix': 'bind9-dnsutils', 'reference': '1:9.16.42-1~deb11u1'},
{'release': '11.0', 'prefix': 'bind9-doc', 'reference': '1:9.16.42-1~deb11u1'},
{'release': '11.0', 'prefix': 'bind9-host', 'reference': '1:9.16.42-1~deb11u1'},
{'release': '11.0', 'prefix': 'bind9-libs', 'reference': '1:9.16.42-1~deb11u1'},
{'release': '11.0', 'prefix': 'bind9-utils', 'reference': '1:9.16.42-1~deb11u1'},
{'release': '11.0', 'prefix': 'bind9utils', 'reference': '1:9.16.42-1~deb11u1'},
{'release': '11.0', 'prefix': 'dnsutils', 'reference': '1:9.16.42-1~deb11u1'},
{'release': '12.0', 'prefix': 'bind9', 'reference': '1:9.18.16-1~deb12u1'},
{'release': '12.0', 'prefix': 'bind9-dev', 'reference': '1:9.18.16-1~deb12u1'},
{'release': '12.0', 'prefix': 'bind9-dnsutils', 'reference': '1:9.18.16-1~deb12u1'},
{'release': '12.0', 'prefix': 'bind9-doc', 'reference': '1:9.18.16-1~deb12u1'},
{'release': '12.0', 'prefix': 'bind9-host', 'reference': '1:9.18.16-1~deb12u1'},
{'release': '12.0', 'prefix': 'bind9-libs', 'reference': '1:9.18.16-1~deb12u1'},
{'release': '12.0', 'prefix': 'bind9-utils', 'reference': '1:9.18.16-1~deb12u1'},
{'release': '12.0', 'prefix': 'bind9utils', 'reference': '1:9.18.16-1~deb12u1'},
{'release': '12.0', 'prefix': 'dnsutils', 'reference': '1:9.18.16-1~deb12u1'}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
var _release = NULL;
var prefix = NULL;
var reference = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['prefix'])) prefix = package_array['prefix'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (_release && prefix && reference) {
if (deb_check(release:_release, prefix:prefix, reference:reference)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : deb_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = deb_pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'bind9 / bind9-dev / bind9-dnsutils / bind9-doc / bind9-host / etc');
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | bind9 | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9 |
debian | debian_linux | bind9-dev | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9-dev |
debian | debian_linux | bind9-dnsutils | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9-dnsutils |
debian | debian_linux | bind9-doc | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9-doc |
debian | debian_linux | bind9-host | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9-host |
debian | debian_linux | bind9-libs | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9-libs |
debian | debian_linux | bind9-utils | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9-utils |
debian | debian_linux | bind9utils | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bind9utils |
debian | debian_linux | dnsutils | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dnsutils |
debian | debian_linux | 11.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0 |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-2828
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-2911
packages.debian.org/source/bookworm/bind9
packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/bind9
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-2828
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-2911
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/bind9
www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5439