USN-6390-1: Bind vulnerabilities

24208

04 December 2023

04 December 2023

CLOSED

MEDIUM

CVE-2023-3341,CVE-2023-4236

Severity

medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 22.04

Description

It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain control channel messages. A remote attacker with access to the control channel could possibly use this issue to cause Bind to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2023-3341) Robert Story discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain DNS-over-TLS queries. 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, and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-4236) Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6390-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: dnsutils - 1:9.18.12-0ubuntu0.22.04.3 bind9-libs - 1:9.18.12-0ubuntu0.22.04.3 bind9utils - 1:9.18.12-0ubuntu0.22.04.3 bind9-dev - 1:9.18.12-0ubuntu0.22.04.3 bind9-doc - 1:9.18.12-0ubuntu0.22.04.3 bind9-utils - 1:9.18.12-0ubuntu0.22.04.3 bind9 - 1:9.18.12-0ubuntu0.22.04.3 bind9-dnsutils - 1:9.18.12-0ubuntu0.22.04.3 bind9-host - 1:9.18.12-0ubuntu0.22.04.3 No subscription required

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2023-3341, CVE-2023-4236

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • Isolation Segment
    • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.18, or later versions with Jammy Stemcells prior to 1.250
    • 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.10+LTS-T, or later versions with Jammy Stemcells prior to 1.250
  • Operations Manager
    • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.17+LTS-T
  • Redis for Pivotal Platform
    • 3.2.x versions with Jammy Stemcells prior to 1.250
    • 3.3.x versions with Jammy Stemcells prior to 1.250
  • VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
    • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.18, or later versions with Jammy Stemcells prior to 1.250
    • 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.10+LTS-T, or later versions with Jammy Stemcells prior to 1.250

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
    • 3.0.18, and upgrade Jammy Stemcells to 1.250 or greater
    • 4.0.10+LTS-T, and upgrade Jammy Stemcells to 1.250 or greater
  • Operations Manager
    • 3.0.17+LTS-T
  • Redis for Pivotal Platform
    • 3.2.x: Upgrade Jammy Stemcells to 1.250 or greater
    • 3.3.x: Upgrade Jammy Stemcells to 1.250 or greater
  • VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
    • 3.0.18, and upgrade Jammy Stemcells to 1.250 or greater
    • 4.0.10+LTS-T, and upgrade Jammy Stemcells to 1.250 or greater

References

History

2023-12-04: Initial vulnerability report published.