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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.10539
Category:General
Title:Useable remote name server
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote name server allows recursive queries to be performed
by the host running nessusd.

If this is your internal nameserver, then forget this warning.

If you are probing a remote nameserver, then it allows anyone
to use it to resolve third parties names (such as www.nessus.org).
This allows hackers to do cache poisoning attacks against this
nameserver.

If the host allows these recursive queries via UDP,
then the host can be used to 'bounce' Denial of Service attacks
against another network or system.

See also : http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1997-22.html

Solution : Restrict recursive queries to the hosts that should
use this nameserver (such as those of the LAN connected to it).

If you are using bind 8, you can do this by using the instruction
'allow-recursion' in the 'options' section of your named.conf

If you are using bind 9, you can define a grouping of internal addresses
using the 'acl' command

Then, within the options block, you can explicitly state:
'allow-recursion { hosts_defined_in_acl }'

For more info on Bind 9 administration (to include recursion), see:
http://www.nominum.com/content/documents/bind9arm.pdf

If you are using another name server, consult its documentation.

Risk factor : High

Cross-Ref: BugTraq ID: 136
BugTraq ID: 678
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-1999-0024
Cert/CC Advisory: CA-97.22.bind
NAI Labs Security Advisory: NAI-11
XForce ISS Database: bind
CopyrightThis script is Copyright (C) 2000 Renaud Deraison

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