Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-8705 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in ISC Bind

047910
CVSS 6.6 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
high complexity
isc
CWE-20
nessus
NVD
Published: 2016-01-20
Updated: 2018-10-30

Summary

buffer.c in named in ISC BIND 9.10.x before 9.10.3-P3, when debug logging is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (REQUIRE assertion failure and daemon exit, or daemon crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via (1) OPT data or (2) an ECS option.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Isc
59

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
  • Cross Zone Scripting
    An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.

Nessus

  • NASL familyAmazon Linux Local Security Checks
    NASL idALA_ALAS-2016-641.NASL
    descriptionSpecific APL RR data could cause a server to exit due to an INSIST failure in apl_42.c when performing certain string formatting operations. (CVE-2015-8704) CVE-2015-8705 was also issued today for bind, but the Amazon Linux AMI
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id87990
    published2016-01-20
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/87990
    titleAmazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2016-641)
    code
    #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2016-641.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(87990);
  script_version("2.7");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/04/18 15:09:35");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8704");
  script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2016-641");

  script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : bind (ALAS-2016-641)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Specific APL RR data could cause a server to exit due to an INSIST
failure in apl_42.c when performing certain string formatting
operations. (CVE-2015-8704)

CVE-2015-8705 was also issued today for bind, but the Amazon Linux
AMI's version of bind is not impacted by that CVE."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2016-641.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Run 'yum update bind' to update your system."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-chroot");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-libs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-sdb");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bind-utils");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/01/19");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/01/20");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);

release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(release) || !strlen(release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "A")
{
  if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
  audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux AMI", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}

if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"bind-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"bind-devel-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"bind-libs-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"bind-utils-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.43.amzn1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "bind / bind-chroot / bind-debuginfo / bind-devel / bind-libs / etc");
}
  • NASL familySlackware Local Security Checks
    NASL idSLACKWARE_SSA_2016-054-01.NASL
    descriptionNew bind packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id88909
    published2016-02-24
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/88909
    titleSlackware 13.0 / 13.1 / 13.37 / 14.0 / 14.1 / current : bind (SSA:2016-054-01)
    code
    #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2016-054-01. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Slackware Linux, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(88909);
  script_version("$Revision: 2.5 $");
  script_cvs_date("$Date: 2016/10/19 14:37:26 $");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8704", "CVE-2015-8705");
  script_xref(name:"SSA", value:"2016-054-01");

  script_name(english:"Slackware 13.0 / 13.1 / 13.37 / 14.0 / 14.1 / current : bind (SSA:2016-054-01)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package in /var/log/packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Slackware host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"New bind packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37,
14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues."
  );
  # http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.520528
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?c50ff392"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected bind package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:slackware:slackware_linux:bind");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:slackware:slackware_linux");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:slackware:slackware_linux:13.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:slackware:slackware_linux:13.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:slackware:slackware_linux:13.37");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:slackware:slackware_linux:14.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:slackware:slackware_linux:14.1");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/02/23");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/02/24");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Slackware Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Slackware/release", "Host/Slackware/packages");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("slackware.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Slackware/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Slackware");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Slackware/packages")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Slackware", cpu);


flag = 0;
if (slackware_check(osver:"13.0", pkgname:"bind", pkgver:"9.9.8_P3", pkgarch:"i486", pkgnum:"1_slack13.0")) flag++;
if (slackware_check(osver:"13.0", arch:"x86_64", pkgname:"bind", pkgver:"9.9.8_P3", pkgarch:"x86_64", pkgnum:"1_slack13.0")) flag++;

if (slackware_check(osver:"13.1", pkgname:"bind", pkgver:"9.9.8_P3", pkgarch:"i486", pkgnum:"1_slack13.1")) flag++;
if (slackware_check(osver:"13.1", arch:"x86_64", pkgname:"bind", pkgver:"9.9.8_P3", pkgarch:"x86_64", pkgnum:"1_slack13.1")) flag++;

if (slackware_check(osver:"13.37", pkgname:"bind", pkgver:"9.9.8_P3", pkgarch:"i486", pkgnum:"1_slack13.37")) flag++;
if (slackware_check(osver:"13.37", arch:"x86_64", pkgname:"bind", pkgver:"9.9.8_P3", pkgarch:"x86_64", pkgnum:"1_slack13.37")) flag++;

if (slackware_check(osver:"14.0", pkgname:"bind", pkgver:"9.9.8_P3", pkgarch:"i486", pkgnum:"1_slack14.0")) flag++;
if (slackware_check(osver:"14.0", arch:"x86_64", pkgname:"bind", pkgver:"9.9.8_P3", pkgarch:"x86_64", pkgnum:"1_slack14.0")) flag++;

if (slackware_check(osver:"14.1", pkgname:"bind", pkgver:"9.9.8_P3", pkgarch:"i486", pkgnum:"1_slack14.1")) flag++;
if (slackware_check(osver:"14.1", arch:"x86_64", pkgname:"bind", pkgver:"9.9.8_P3", pkgarch:"x86_64", pkgnum:"1_slack14.1")) flag++;

if (slackware_check(osver:"current", pkgname:"bind", pkgver:"9.10.3_P3", pkgarch:"i586", pkgnum:"1")) flag++;
if (slackware_check(osver:"current", arch:"x86_64", pkgname:"bind", pkgver:"9.10.3_P3", pkgarch:"x86_64", pkgnum:"1")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:slackware_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
  • NASL familyDNS
    NASL idBIND9_9103_P3.NASL
    descriptionAccording to its self-reported version number, the installation of ISC BIND running on the remote name server is affected by multiple denial of service vulnerabilities : - A denial of service vulnerability exists due to improper handling of certain string formatting options. An authenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a malformed Address Prefix List (APL) record, to cause an INSIST assertion failure and daemon exit. (CVE-2015-8704) - A denial of service vulnerability exists due to a failure to properly convert OPT records and ECS options to formatted text. A remote attacker can exploit this to cause a REQUIRE assertion failure and daemon exit. Note that this issue only affects BIND 9.10.x. (CVE-2015-8705) Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id88385
    published2016-01-26
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/88385
    titleISC BIND 9.3.0 < 9.9.8-P3 / 9.9.x-Sx < 9.9.8-S4 / 9.10.x < 9.10.3-P3 Multiple DoS
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2016-F3517B9C4C.NASL
    descriptionUpdate to the latest upstream version due to security fixes Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2016-03-04
    plugin id89639
    published2016-03-04
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/89639
    titleFedora 23 : bind-9.10.3-10.P3.fc23 (2016-f3517b9c4c)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2016-1AB53BF440.NASL
    descriptionUpdate to the latest upstream version due to security fixes Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2016-03-04
    plugin id89486
    published2016-03-04
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/89486
    titleFedora 22 : bind-9.10.3-8.P3.fc22 (2016-1ab53bf440)
  • NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
    NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-201610-07.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201610-07 (BIND: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in BIND. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition through multiple attack vectors. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id93994
    published2016-10-12
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93994
    titleGLSA-201610-07 : BIND: Multiple vulnerabilities
  • NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
    NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_314830D8BF9111E596D614DAE9D210B8.NASL
    descriptionISC reports : Problems converting OPT resource records and ECS options to text format can cause BIND to terminate
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id88027
    published2016-01-21
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/88027
    titleFreeBSD : bind -- denial of service vulnerability (314830d8-bf91-11e5-96d6-14dae9d210b8)

References