Executive Summary

Summary
Title Bind vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-4365-2 First vendor Publication 2020-05-20
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2020-05-20
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 8.6
Base Score 8.6 Environmental Score 8.6
impact SubScore 4 Temporal Score 8.6
Exploitabality Sub Score 3.9
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction None
Scope Changed Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.04 ESM - Ubuntu 12.04 ESM

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in Bind.

Software Description: - bind9: Internet Domain Name Server

Details:

USN-4365-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Bind. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details:

Lior Shafir, Yehuda Afek, and Anat Bremler-Barr discovered that Bind
incorrectly limited certain fetches. A remote attacker could possibly use
this issue to cause Bind to consume resources, leading to a denial of
service, or possibly use Bind to perform a reflection attack.
(CVE-2020-8616)

Tobias Klein discovered that Bind incorrectly handled checking TSIG
validity. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Bind to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly perform other attacks.
(CVE-2020-8617)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:
bind9 1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.19+esm2

Ubuntu 12.04 ESM:
bind9 1:9.8.1.dfsg.P1-4ubuntu0.30

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4365-2
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4365-1
CVE-2020-8616, CVE-2020-8617

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4365-2

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-617 Reachable Assertion
50 % CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 665
Os 6
Os 3
Os 2
Os 2

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2020-09-02 BIND DNS server TSIG denial of service attempt
RuleID : 54630 - Revision : 1 - Type : PROTOCOL-DNS

Alert History

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Date Informations
2020-05-28 05:28:31
  • Multiple Updates
2020-05-21 00:18:07
  • First insertion