Critical Risk of Service Interruption in bind97 on Scientific Linux

Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 21:26:52 -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
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Message-ID: <20161020212652.25684.48542@slpackages.fnal.gov>

Synopsis: Important: bind97 security update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2016:2094-1
Issue Date: 2016-10-20
CVE Numbers: CVE-2016-2848
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Security Fix(es):

* A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND handled packets with
malformed options. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make named
exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure via a specially crafted DNS
packet. (CVE-2016-2848)
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SL5
 x86_64
 bind97-9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8.x86_64.rpm
 bind97-chroot-9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8.x86_64.rpm
 bind97-debuginfo-9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8.i386.rpm
 bind97-debuginfo-9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8.x86_64.rpm
 bind97-devel-9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8.i386.rpm
 bind97-devel-9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8.x86_64.rpm
 bind97-libs-9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8.i386.rpm
 bind97-libs-9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8.x86_64.rpm
 bind97-utils-9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8.x86_64.rpm
 i386
 bind97-9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8.i386.rpm
 bind97-chroot-9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8.i386.rpm
 bind97-debuginfo-9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8.i386.rpm
 bind97-devel-9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8.i386.rpm
 bind97-libs-9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8.i386.rpm
 bind97-utils-9.7.0-21.P2.el5_11.8.i386.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team