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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2018.1536
Two denial of service vulnerabilities patched in BIND 9.12
21 May 2018
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: BIND
Publisher: ISC
Operating System: UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Windows
Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Remote/Unauthenticated
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2018-5737 CVE-2018-5736
Original Bulletin:
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01602/0
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01606/0
Comment: This bulletin contains two (2) ISC security advisories.
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CVE-2018-5736: Multiple transfers of a zone in quick succession can
cause an assertion failure in rbtdb.c
Author: Michael McNally
Number: AA-01602 Views: 3059
Created: 2018-05-18 09:11
Last Updated: 2018-05-18 18:01
CVE: CVE-2018-5736
Document Version: 2.0
Posting date: 18 May 2018
Program Impacted: BIND
Versions affected: 9.12.0 and 9.12.1
Severity: Medium
Exploitable: Remotely, if an attacker can trigger a zone transfer
Description:
An error in zone database reference counting can lead to an assertion
failure if a server which is running an affected version of BIND
attempts several transfers of a slave zone in quick succession.
This defect could be deliberately exercised by an attacker who is
permitted to cause a vulnerable server to initiate zone transfers
(for example: by sending valid NOTIFY messages), causing the named
process to exit after failing the assertion test.
Impact:
Authoritative servers that serve slave zones are vulnerable to
potential denial of service if all of the following are true:
* they are running an affected version of BIND (BIND 9.12.0 or
9.12.1)
* at least one of the zones for which they are providing service is
of type "slave"
* they permit NOTIFY messages from any source.
CVSS Score: 5.3
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
For more information on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System and
to obtain your specific environmental score please visit: https://
www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.0#CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/
C:N/I:N/A:H
Workarounds:
For servers which must receive notifies to keep slave zone contents
current, no complete workarounds are known although restricting BIND
to only accept NOTIFY messages from authorized sources can greatly
mitigate the risk of attack.
Active exploits:
No known active exploits.
Solution:
The reference counting error which can be exploited in this
vulnerability is present in only two public release versions of BIND,
9.12.0 and 9.12.1.
If you are running an affected version then upgrade to BIND 9.12.1-P1
Acknowledgements:
ISC would like to thank SWITCH for informing us of this
vulnerability.
Document Revision History:
1.0 Advance Notification 09 May 2018
2.0 Public Disclosure 18 May 2018
Related Documents:
See our BIND9 Security Vulnerability Matrix at https://kb.isc.org/
article/AA-00913 for a complete listing of Security Vulnerabilities
and versions affected.
Do you still have questions? Questions regarding this advisory
should go to security-officer@isc.org. To report a new issue, please
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Note:
ISC patches only currently supported versions. When possible we
indicate EOL versions affected. (For current information on which
versions are actively supported, please see http://www.isc.org/
downloads/).
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CVE-2018-5737: BIND 9.12's serve-stale implementation can cause an
assertion failure in rbtdb.c or other undesirable behavior, even if
serve-stale is not enabled.
Author: Michael McNally
Reference Number: AA-01606
Created: 2018-05-18 10:14
Last Updated: 2018-05-18 18:03
CVE: CVE-2018-5737
Document Version: 2.0
Posting date: 18 May 2018
Program Impacted: BIND
Versions affected: 9.12.0, 9.12.1
Severity: Medium
Exploitable: Remotely
Description:
A problem with the implementation of the new serve-stale feature in
BIND 9.12 can lead to an assertion failure in rbtdb.c, even when
stale-answer-enable is off. Additionally, problematic interaction
between the serve-stale feature and NSEC aggressive negative caching
can in some cases cause undesirable behavior from named, such as a
recursion loop or excessive logging.
Deliberate exploitation of this condition could cause operational
problems depending on the particular manifestation -- either
degradation or denial of service.
Impact:
Servers running a vulnerable version of BIND (9.12.0, 9.12.1) which
permit recursion to clients and which have the max-stale-ttl
parameter set to a non-zero value are at risk.
CVSS Score: 5.9
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
For more information on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System and
to obtain your specific environmental score please visit: https://
www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.0#CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/
C:N/I:N/A:H
Workarounds:
Setting "max-stale-ttl 0;" in named.conf will prevent exploitation of
this vulnerability (but will effectively disable the serve-stale
feature.)
Setting "stale-answer enable off;" is not sufficient to prevent
exploitation, max-stale-ttl needs to be set to zero.
Active exploits:
No known active exploits.
Solution:
The error which can be exploited in this vulnerability is present in
only two public release versions of BIND, 9.12.0 and 9.12.1. If you
are running an affected version then upgrade to BIND 9.12.1-P2
Acknowledgements:
ISC would like to thank Tony Finch of the University of Cambridge for
his assistance in discovering and analyzing this vulnerability.
Document Revision History:
1.0 Advance Notification, 09 May 2018
1.1 BIND 9.12.1-P1 was recalled before public announcement due to
defect, the advisory language was re-written to be clearer about the
exploit risk, and the public disclosure date was adjusted because of
the problem with 9.12.1-P1, 17 May 2018
2.0 Public Disclosure, 18 May 2018
Related Documents:
See our BIND9 Security Vulnerability Matrix at https://kb.isc.org/
article/AA-00913 for a complete listing of Security Vulnerabilities
and versions affected.
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