Critical Update: bind97 Denial of Service Vulnerability in SL5.x

Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:04:46 +0000
Reply-To: scientific-linux-users@
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Pat Riehecky 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: bind97 on SL5.x i386/x86_64
MIME-Version: 1.0

Synopsis: Important: bind97 security update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2013:1115-1
Issue Date: 2013-07-30
CVE Numbers: CVE-2013-4854
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A denial of service flaw was found in BIND. A remote attacker could use
this flaw to send a specially-crafted DNS query to named that, when
processed, would cause named to crash when rejecting the malformed query.
(CVE-2013-4854)

After installing the update, the BIND daemon (named) will be restarted
automatically.
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SL5
 x86_64
 bind97-9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2.x86_64.rpm
 bind97-chroot-9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2.x86_64.rpm
 bind97-debuginfo-9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2.i386.rpm
 bind97-debuginfo-9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2.x86_64.rpm
 bind97-devel-9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2.i386.rpm
 bind97-devel-9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2.x86_64.rpm
 bind97-libs-9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2.i386.rpm
 bind97-libs-9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2.x86_64.rpm
 bind97-utils-9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 bind97-9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2.i386.rpm
 bind97-chroot-9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2.i386.rpm
 bind97-debuginfo-9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2.i386.rpm
 bind97-devel-9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2.i386.rpm
 bind97-libs-9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2.i386.rpm
 bind97-utils-9.7.0-17.P2.el5_9.2.i386.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team