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Red Hat: RHSA-2015-2655-01 Critical Update on BIND DoS Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey December 16, 2015
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Crucial security patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux resolves a denial of service vulnerability. Upgrade is advised.
Updated bind packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. BIND includes a DNS server (named); a resolver library (routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS); and tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating correctly.
A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND processed certain records with malformed class attributes. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a query to request a cached record with a malformed class attribute that would cause named functioning as an authoritative or recursive server to crash. (CVE-2015-8000)
Note: This issue affects authoritative servers as well as recursive servers, however authoritative servers are at limited risk if they perform authentication when making recursive queries to resolve addresses for servers listed in NS RRSETs.
Red Hat would like to thank ISC for reporting this issue.
All bind users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing the update, the BIND daemon (named) will be restarted automatically.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Red Hat update DoS security impact BIND

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8000 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01317

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: bind-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.src.rpm
i386: bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.i686.rpm bind-libs-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.i686.rpm bind-utils-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.i686.rpm
x86_64: bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.i686.rpm bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.x86_64.rpm bind-libs-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.i686.rpm bind-libs-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.x86_64.rpm bind-utils-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):
i386: bind-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.i686.rpm bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.i686.rpm bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.i686.rpm bind-devel-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.i686.rpm bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.i686.rpm
x86_64: bind-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.x86_64.rpm bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.x86_64.rpm bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.i686.rpm bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.x86_64.rpm bind-devel-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.i686.rpm bind-devel-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.x86_64.rpm bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6):
Source: bind-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.src.rpm
x86_64: bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.i686.rpm bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.x86_64.rpm bind-libs-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5.i686.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2015:2655-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:2655.html
Issue date: 2015-12-16

Topic

Updated bind packages that fix one security issue are now available for RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important securityimpact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in theReferences section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Red Hat update DoS security impact BIND

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1291176 - CVE-2015-8000 bind: responses with a malformed class attribute can trigger an assertion failure in db.c

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