USN-6183-2: Bind vulnerability

23783

18 October 2023

18 October 2023

CLOSED

MEDIUM

CVE-2023-2828

Severity

medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
  • Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

USN-6183-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Bind. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Original advisory details: Shoham Danino, Anat Bremler-Barr, Yehuda Afek, and Yuval Shavitt discovered that Bind incorrectly handled the cache size limit. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to consume memory, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2023-2828) It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled the recursive-clients quota. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.10, and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-2911) Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6183-2` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: libisc160 - 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19+esm6 libisccc-export140-udeb - 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19+esm6 libdns162 - 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19+esm6 libbind-dev - 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19+esm6 libbind9-140 - 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19+esm6 libisccc-export140 - 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19+esm6 libisccfg-export140 - 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19+esm6 bind9 - 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19+esm6 libisc-export160 - 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19+esm6 bind9-doc - 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19+esm6 libbind-export-dev - 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19+esm6 libisccc140 - 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19+esm6 host - 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19+esm6 libisccfg140 - 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19+esm6 bind9-host - 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19+esm6 dnsutils - 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19+esm6 libdns-export162 - 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19+esm6 bind9utils - 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19+esm6 liblwres141 - 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19+esm6 libirs141 - 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19+esm6 libirs-export141 - 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19+esm6 lwresd - 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-8ubuntu1.19+esm6 Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2023-2828

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • Isolation Segment
    • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.38, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.615
    • 2.13.x versions prior to 2.13.23, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.615
    • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.16
    • 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.8+LTS-T
  • Operations Manager
    • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.60
  • VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
    • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.44, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.615
    • 2.13.x versions prior to 2.13.26, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.615
    • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.16
    • 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.8+LTS-T

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigation below. On the Tanzu Network product page for each release, check the Depends On section and/or Release Notes for this information. Releases that have fixed this issue include:
  • Isolation Segment
    • 2.11.38, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.615 or greater
    • 2.13.23, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.615 or greater
    • 3.0.16
    • 4.0.8+LTS-T
  • Operations Manager
    • 2.10.60
  • VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
    • 2.11.44, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.615 or greater
    • 2.13.26, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.615 or greater
    • 3.0.16
    • 4.0.8+LTS-T

References

History

2023-10-18: Initial vulnerability report published.