Unquoted Search Path or Element Affecting bind package, versions <9.11.3-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.11% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE36-BIND-316329
  • published27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed16 Jan 2019

Introduced: 27 Jun 2018

CVE-2017-3141  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-428  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.6 bind to version 9.11.3-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bind package and not the bind package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.6 relevant fixed versions and status.

The BIND installer on Windows uses an unquoted service path which can enable a local user to achieve privilege escalation if the host file system permissions allow this. Affects BIND 9.2.6-P2->9.2.9, 9.3.2-P1->9.3.6, 9.4.0->9.8.8, 9.9.0->9.9.10, 9.10.0->9.10.5, 9.11.0->9.11.1, 9.9.3-S1->9.9.10-S1, 9.10.5-S1.