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ISC BIND DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2023-4236) - Linux

2023-09-2000:00:00
Copyright (C) 2023 Greenbone AG
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isc bind
dos vulnerability
cve-2023-4236
linux
dns
tls
update

7.5 High

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

7.4 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

35.0%

ISC BIND is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:isc:bind";

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.104925");
  script_version("2023-10-13T05:06:10+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-10-13 05:06:10 +0000 (Fri, 13 Oct 2023)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2023-09-20 13:23:30 +0000 (Wed, 20 Sep 2023)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.8");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2023-09-20 15:15:00 +0000 (Wed, 20 Sep 2023)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2023-4236");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_name("ISC BIND DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2023-4236) - Linux");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2023 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Denial of Service");
  script_dependencies("gb_isc_bind_consolidation.nasl", "os_detection.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("isc/bind/detected", "Host/runs_unixoide");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"ISC BIND is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"A flaw in the networking code handling DNS-over-TLS queries may
  cause named to terminate unexpectedly due to an assertion failure. This happens when internal data
  structures are incorrectly reused under significant DNS-over-TLS query load.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"A named instance vulnerable to this flaw may terminate
  unexpectedly when subjected to significant DNS-over-TLS query load.

  This flaw does not affect DNS-over-HTTPS code, as that uses a different TLS implementation.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"ISC BIND versions 9.18.0 through 9.18.18 and 9.18.11-S1 through
  9.18.18-S1.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 9.18.19, 9.18.19-S1 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2023-4236");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
  exit(0);

if (!infos = get_app_full(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
  exit(0);

version = infos["version"];
proto = infos["proto"];
location = infos["location"];

if (version =~ "^9\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+s[0-9]") {
  if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "9.18.11s1", test_version2: "9.18.18s1")) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "9.18.19-S1", install_path: location);
    security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: proto);
    exit(0);
  }
} else {
  if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "9.18.0", test_version2: "9.18.18")) {
    report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "9.18.19", install_path: location);
    security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: proto);
    exit(0);
  }
}

exit(99);

7.5 High

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

7.4 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

35.0%