| VID |
19085 |
| Severity |
30 |
| Port |
53 |
| Protocol |
UDP |
| Class |
DNS |
| Detailed Description |
According to its self-reported version, the instance of ISC BIND 9 running on the remote name server is 9.12.0 or 9.12.1. It is, therefore, affected by an allow-recursion vulnerability which exists in the named.conf due to a regression issue introduced by change #4777.
* Note: This check solely relied on the banner of the remote DNS server to assess this vulnerability, so this might be a false positive.
* References:
https://kb.isc.org/docs/AA-01616
* Platforms Affected:
Internet Software Consortium, BIND version 9.12.x < 9.12.2
Any operating system Any version |
| Recommendation |
Upgrade to the latest version of BIND(9.12.2 or later), available from the Internet Software Consortium (ISC) Web site at http://www.isc.org/downloads/BIND/ |
| Related URL |
CVE-2018-5738 (CVE) |
| Related URL |
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| Related URL |
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