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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.70689
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2370-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'unbound' package(s) announced via the DSA-2370-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'unbound' package(s) announced via the DSA-2370-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
It was discovered that Unbound, a recursive DNS resolver, would crash when processing certain malformed DNS responses from authoritative DNS servers, leading to denial of service.

CVE-2011-4528

Unbound attempts to free unallocated memory during processing of duplicate CNAME records in a signed zone.

CVE-2011-4869

Unbound does not properly process malformed responses which lack expected NSEC3 records.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.6-1~
lenny2.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.6-1+squeeze2.

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.14-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your unbound packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'unbound' package(s) on Debian 5, Debian 6.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.8

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-4528
CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#209659
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/209659
Debian Security Information: DSA-2370 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2370
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071525.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071535.html
http://osvdb.org/77909
http://secunia.com/advisories/47326
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-4869
http://osvdb.org/77910
XForce ISS Database: unbound-nsec3-dos(71868)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71868
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2012 Greenbone AG

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