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amazonAmazonALAS-2015-465
HistoryJan 08, 2015 - 11:36 a.m.

Important: bind

2015-01-0811:36:00
alas.aws.amazon.com
24

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

0.898 High

EPSS

Percentile

98.7%

Issue Overview:

A denial of service flaw was found in the way BIND followed DNS delegations. A remote attacker could use a specially crafted zone containing a large number of referrals which, when looked up and processed, would cause named to use excessive amounts of memory or crash. (CVE-2014-8500)

Affected Packages:

bind

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

New Packages:

i686:  
    bind-utils-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.35.amzn1.i686  
    bind-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.35.amzn1.i686  
    bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.35.amzn1.i686  
    bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.35.amzn1.i686  
    bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.35.amzn1.i686  
    bind-devel-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.35.amzn1.i686  
    bind-libs-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.35.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    bind-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.35.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    bind-devel-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.35.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-utils-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.35.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-libs-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.35.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-chroot-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.35.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.35.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-sdb-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.35.amzn1.x86_64  
    bind-debuginfo-9.8.2-0.30.rc1.35.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2014-8500

Mitre: CVE-2014-8500

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

0.898 High

EPSS

Percentile

98.7%