CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
94.8%
It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled IXFR transfers and dynamic updates while under heavy load when used as an authoritative server. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Bind to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service.
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.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1070-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(52164);
script_version("1.11");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/19 12:54:26");
script_cve_id("CVE-2011-0414");
script_bugtraq_id(46491);
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"1070-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 10.10 : bind9 vulnerability (USN-1070-1)");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated packages.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related
patches."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled IXFR transfers and
dynamic updates while under heavy load when used as an authoritative
server. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Bind to stop
responding, resulting in a denial of service.
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."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/1070-1/"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9-host");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bind9utils");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dnsutils");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:host");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbind-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbind9-60");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdns66");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisc60");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccc60");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libisccfg60");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblwres60");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lwresd");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2011/02/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2011/02/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2011/02/24");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2011-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("ubuntu.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release");
if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu");
release = chomp(release);
if (! preg(pattern:"^(10\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 10.10", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.10", pkgname:"bind9", pkgver:"9.7.1.dfsg.P2-2ubuntu0.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.10", pkgname:"bind9-doc", pkgver:"9.7.1.dfsg.P2-2ubuntu0.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.10", pkgname:"bind9-host", pkgver:"9.7.1.dfsg.P2-2ubuntu0.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.10", pkgname:"bind9utils", pkgver:"9.7.1.dfsg.P2-2ubuntu0.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.10", pkgname:"dnsutils", pkgver:"9.7.1.dfsg.P2-2ubuntu0.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.10", pkgname:"host", pkgver:"9.7.1.dfsg.P2-2ubuntu0.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.10", pkgname:"libbind-dev", pkgver:"9.7.1.dfsg.P2-2ubuntu0.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.10", pkgname:"libbind9-60", pkgver:"9.7.1.dfsg.P2-2ubuntu0.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.10", pkgname:"libdns66", pkgver:"1:9.7.1.dfsg.P2-2ubuntu0.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.10", pkgname:"libisc60", pkgver:"9.7.1.dfsg.P2-2ubuntu0.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.10", pkgname:"libisccc60", pkgver:"9.7.1.dfsg.P2-2ubuntu0.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.10", pkgname:"libisccfg60", pkgver:"9.7.1.dfsg.P2-2ubuntu0.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.10", pkgname:"liblwres60", pkgver:"9.7.1.dfsg.P2-2ubuntu0.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.10", pkgname:"lwresd", pkgver:"9.7.1.dfsg.P2-2ubuntu0.2")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : ubuntu_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "bind9 / bind9-doc / bind9-host / bind9utils / dnsutils / host / etc");
}