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amazonAmazonALAS-2012-113
HistoryAug 03, 2012 - 3:55 p.m.

Important: bind

2012-08-0315:55:00
alas.aws.amazon.com
7

7.8 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

0.066 Low

EPSS

Percentile

93.6%

Issue Overview:

An uninitialized data structure use flaw was found in BIND when DNSSEC validation was enabled. A remote attacker able to send a large number of queries to a DNSSEC validating BIND resolver could use this flaw to cause it to exit unexpectedly with an assertion failure. (CVE-2012-3817)

Affected Packages:

bind

Issue Correction:
Run yum update bind to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    bind-libs-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.i686  
    bind-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.i686  
    bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.i686  
    bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.i686  
    bind-utils-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.i686  
    bind-devel-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.i686  
    bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    bind-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-utils-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-libs-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-devel-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.23.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2012-3817

Mitre: CVE-2012-3817

7.8 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

0.066 Low

EPSS

Percentile

93.6%